Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha of Brazil accepted an invitation from President Roosevelt to visit Washington next month. Subjects for talk: trade, continental defense, Dictators. In any picture of the Dictators fostering a totalitarian state in South America, Brazil looms first and largest because its undeveloped areas are widest, its German and Italian populations powerful. Two years ago Brazil wanted to hire decommissioned U. S. warships to train its navy, but Argentina objected. After Argentina's obstruction of U. S. proposals at the Lima conference last month, her objections might now be disregarded...
...page from his past which may embarrass him: his report to Harry Hopkins last June after a flying visit to Kentucky, saying that he found no evidence of political improprieties by WPAsters in the notorious Barkley-Chandler primary brawl...
Unlike his far shrewder halfbrother, the late Sir Austen Chamberlain, a skilled diplomat and linguist, Mr. Chamberlain is singularly unequipped for his "personal" chats with the leaders of other nations. During his November visit to Paris he disappointed French radio listeners by saying "I can speak no French." Last week he showed that he had at least learned something. Saying farewell to M. Daladier he beamed: "Merci, thank you, Merci, monsieur, beaucoup, beaucoup, beaucoup...
Bearded, scholarly Dr. Fernando de los Rios, Spanish Ambassador to the U. S., no friend to clericalism in Spain, invited a number of U. S. Catholics to visit Loyalist Spain, see for themselves that there is today no religious persecution. Ambassador de los Rios received a prompt reply from one of the invitees, blunt, Irish-born Archbishop Michael Joseph Curley of Baltimore. Calling the Ambassador a "common, ordinary liar," the Archbishop said...
Informed by worried Hudson's Bay Co. officials that its charter, granted in 1670, requires the Company to present a visiting British monarch with two live elk and a pair of black beavers, King George VI agreed that on his visit next spring he would accept instead, two mounted elk heads, two beaver skins...