Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wolfe landed with his Army under the bluffs of Quebec 180 years ago to wrest the country from the French for Britain. George VI, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and of the British Dominions Beyond the Seas, King, and his Queen, Elizabeth, were coming a-visiting-the first sovereign visit in Canada's history...
Meanwhile, as Canada fussed over last-minute details for Their Majesties' 26-day train tour of the Dominion (and five-day visit to the U. S.), the liner Empress of Australia, bearing their precious persons from England, groped through blinding fog, shied away from towering icebergs and treacherous, low-floating "growlers," made hooting, painfully slow progress westward. It was a bad crossing from the start. Three days out George had to muffle up and Elizabeth stayed mostly indoors as a 60-mile gale whipped the Empress, tossing up mighty waves that washed over her gunwales. The wallowing sent many...
...from Colonel Beck enlightening details on a deal which Herr Hitler had tried to make some weeks ago with the Poles. The Führer, it was said, had promised Poland a cut in a Nazi dismemberment of the Soviet Union. Although no written agreement resulted from the Potemkin visit, Polish-Russian affairs were left friendlier than they had been in many a year. With the breakdown of a Polish-German commercial agreement expected, Polish-Soviet trade will probably grow. While Poles were still suspicious of aid from Red Russia, a few German bombs falling on Warsaw could reasonably...
General. Behind General Marshall's visit was a story of German intrigue and U. S. counter-intrigue. Führer Hitler had invited General Pedro Aurelio Goes Monteiro, Brazilian Chief of Staff, to visit Berlin. The Führer was prepared to shower the General with compliments, among them the honor of marching down Unter den Linden at the head of a specially picked regiment of Nazi troops...
...Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles got wind of the German plans, quickly made a counterproposal to Brazil. The U. S. would be delighted to send General Marshall to visit General Góes Monteiro, would be more than pleased to have the Brazilian Army man come back with the U. S. General on a U. S. warship on a return visit to the U.S. At this happy prospect General Góes Monteiro, in Rio de Janeiro last week, oozed satisfaction...