Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real purpose of Carol's visit was to wangle financial and political support for Rumania from the British Government and London financial circles. In the days before Munich, Britain and France were liberal with credits to the small States of Europe, in the belief that such grants could stave off German commercial expansion. But with the Munich Pact and British Prime Minister Chamberlain's open admission that it is Germany's natural position to dominate trade in the Danubian basin, Britain's purse strings have been pulled tight. Last week Carol reportedly asked: 1) loan...
Just before leaving London to visit Paris this week, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told the House of Commons that he is once more appealing to Adolf Hitler to continue the Munich work of "appeasement" in general. In so doing he revealed what may yet prove to be the most important international event since Munich, the efforts which the British Government is making to find a home for Germany's Jews. Having queried all the colonies, he revealed that the Governor of Tanganyika has put at his disposal 50,000 acres on which to settle Jewish men, their families...
...American, Miss Pishmish stopped to visit the observatories in Naples, and was much impressed with the Italians' spirit, "You can fool the artistic attitude," she said. "It is everywhere,--in the decorated buildings, the sidewalks,--even in the varied uniforms...
Although she know Americans in Turkey and mot many on the American Export Liner, Exeter, on the way across, this is Miss Pishmish's first visit to America. When asked what she thought of the feasibility of bringing German student refugees to the United States and to Harvard especially, she reapplied, "Although I am not a refugee, speaking as a foreign student I think it a splendid idea,. I should like to help it possible...
Cardinal Mundelein's visit to Italy had other spectacular aspects. Upon arriving; at Naples on the Rex, he was met by U. S. Ambassador William Phillips, lunched by the commander of the U. S. Mediterranean Fleet, given full military honors by the Italian Government, which furnished a special train to take him to Rome. The U. S. honors, unprecedented for a churchman, were ordered by President Roosevelt...