Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...making last week's announcement, which followed a visit to Secretary Hull by British Ambassador Ronald Lindsay, Prime Minister Chamberlain indicated to the Commons that his Government was not so much approving a trade agreement as trading an economic treaty in the interests of immediately valuable political solidarity. "I feel sure," hinted Mr. Chamberlain, "that the House will warmly welcome this further step toward an agreement between the two Governments." Tory Oppositionist Leopold S. Amery promptly warned a meeting of the Empire Industries' Association: "I can hardly imagine that such an agreement is likely to revolutionize the American...
Modernists will enjoy a visit to the architectural exhibition of housing that is now on display at Robinson Hall...
...April 5 et seq.). This act of state by the King eclipsed in importance anything his Cabinet or Premier have yet done and was fully approved afterward by the Belgian Parliament, press and public. Thus King George is to be honored in Buckingham Palace this week by a state visit from a constitutional sovereign whose powers are real...
Congo & Security. A visit of state is ipso facto not a business visit, but Leopold III is expected to busy himself finding out what the British Government mean by a startling decision they took last week. This was to send to visit Adolf Hitler this week the notably pro-German Viscount Halifax, whose Cabinet post is Lord President of the Council. With all Europe assuming that Halifax & Hitler will talk over Germany's demands for colonial territory; her aspirations in Austria and Czechoslovakia; and her intentions toward Soviet Russia, now that Germany, Italy and Japan have made an anti...
That was in 1831 and the trip was intended as no more than a temporary visit. It turned out to be a permanent exile. In Paris he met his odd mate, Mathilde Mirat ("the loving creature, who has been at my side and with whom I have been quarreling every day for the last six years"). And there he plunged into the quasi-Bohemian, quasi-revolutionary circles with which Paris was awhirl in the days of the Commune. Heine made German enemies by his polemical bitterness, French friends by his personal charm, contributed briefly to a radical weekly edited...