Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last Cabinet meeting prior to the first visit of a British Prime Minister to the U. S. Everyone in London (and many throughout England*) felt the moment keenly. People hovered about Downing Street. What could properly be called the World Press was on tiptoes and the telephone. The U. S. Ambassador, Charles Gates Dawes, arrived (without pipe, for the spotlight was not on him) to say good-bye and make friendly suggestions. Also came (impossible in a less civilized country) the leader of the Opposition, Stanley Baldwin, the ousted Conservative chief saying "good-bye-good luck" to the installed Labor...
...Prajadhipok puts all his brothers to work. Between them they divide up nearly all government offices. The prince whose small body was last week anointed for the grave had most efficiently conducted the Siamese Ministry of Health before he took up medical studies. Only recently the king on a visit to princes in northern rural Siam had admonished his relatives as follows...
...James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, Lord Privy Seal, Minister in Charge of Unemployment, returned to England last week aboard the Canadian Pacific Duchess of Atholl from his four-week visit to Canada. His mission, to alleviate British unemployment by selling British goods, chiefly coal, to loyal Canadians, had been slightly impaired by reports of a big new coal field right in Canada (TIME, Sept. 23). Nevertheless "Jim" Thomas was pleased with himself and as the Duchess of Atholl docked he said to the press: "I feel sure that the sequel will be that Canada will buy from us a large amount...
Albert of Belgium went to Italy. Purpose: to visit Vittorio-Emanuele and Queen Elena. Rumored: that Princess Marie-Jose of Belgium (third child) and Crown Prince Umberto of Italy (just turned 25) are to be married; that Pius XI will perform the ceremony; that the couple will live in a royal palace at Florence...
...visit of Premier Ramsay MacDonald to the United States to meet President Hoover in a conference on naval limitation is significant, showing as it does, the importance being attached by statesmen to a reduction of the machinery of modern warfare. Is it not equally important, however, that the feeling of the intelligent citizenry of the world toward war be influenced and moderated just as much as the actual physical armaments of the nation...