Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more Roman Catholic than Franklin Roosevelt are Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax who, when they go to Italy this month, are reported planning to visit the Pope and to entertain the Cardinals at the British legation in Vatican City. They know, as does the U. S. State Department, that if the democracies are obliged to set up a bloc to protect their interests from fascist encroachments, the Roman Catholic Church may be a useful ally, not only as a powerful church but as a temporal state with one of the ablest diplomatic corps...
...first time since 1934 the might of the U. S. Navy is leaving the Pacific. Maneuvers in the Atlantic and Caribbean, and a ceremonial visit to the New York World's Fair of 1939, were planned over a year ago, before Franklin Roosevelt and the U. S. people became ultra-conscious of Europe and South America. Now the fleet's move has another significance: to bolster the President's "continental solidarity," and remind Europe's fascists that the U. S. is still a major power in the Atlantic...
...that it was an echo of an earlier, better-documented tale of the Doctor's goings-on. Late in August it was whispered around Berlin that somebody, possibly Actress Baarova herself, had clouted Goebbels in the Baarova apartment. He did not make an appearance during the late August, visit of Hungarian Regent Nicholas Horthy, and when he made his brief appearance at the Nürnberg Congress in September, he was carrying the unmistakable vestige of a black...
...third party France fears most is Britain's Prime Minister, scheduled to pursue "appeasement" to Rome during the second week in January. France fears that II Duce will attempt to turn Mr. Chamberlain's visit into another Munich deal at France's expense. Although Mr. Chamberlain announced as his New Year's resolution that "Great Britain will not make any further concessions to force," many a Frenchman chortled over a disquieting burlesque. Shrewd Henri de Kerillis, independent Rightist Deputy and one of the most influential Rightists opposed to Premier Daladier, wrote for his newspaper...
Laurence Housman has written a great chronicle drama, and Miss Hayes' performance has been widely and justly acclaimed; the combination should not be missed, and a second or a third visit will not go unrewarded...