Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London went rich Russophile Joseph E. Davies. He promptly paid a visit to Winston Churchill at Chequers. At week's end, Winston Churchill helped the Big Three talk along: he said not even the pressing election campaign (see FOREIGN NEWS) would prevent him from attending the meeting...
...also a large Yugoslav military center. Later I went with other correspondents to see the Yugoslav commissar for Gorizia, whose offices were in the town's swankiest building. Ushered in with snappy saluting, we discovered an educated young man. However, when he learned the purpose of our visit-to get his reaction to the penetration of his lines-he quickly excused himself, and sent in eight bottles of beer. With the beer came an older, baldheaded, bug-eyed captain, who obviously was a trouble shooter. The captain spoke at great length about the crimes of Fascism, and said...
Pietro Nenni, Italy's No. 1 Socialist, had a bit of political luck last week-he was arrested. Nenni and his friend Palmiro Togliatti, Italy's No. 1 Communist, were given permission by the Allies to visit the North, on condition that neither addressed outdoor meetings. Street signs reading "We Want Nenni," "We Want Togliatti" strongly tempted them. Before long, both succumbed. Promptly. Allied military police led Nenni (who holds no Government office) off to jail. Togliatti (who is Italy's Vice Premier) was not arrested...
...Choctaw war whoops had failed to turn the trick. The Ambassador, after a report to Washington and a call at Moscow, was back in Chungking. He had conferred with Marshal Stalin, presumably on Russian intentions in East Asia. One report said that he had smoothed the way for a visit to the Kremlin by China's Acting Premier T. V. Soong and for a possible improvement in the increasingly chilly relations between Moscow and Chungking. Another report said Hurley was double-checking on Stalin's attitude toward the Chinese Communists (Foreign Commissar Molotov is once supposed to have...
Report from the Front. In 1943, Dr. John Lucian Savage, top U.S. Bureau of Reclamation civil engineer, who had gone to Chungking at Chinese invitation to study potential hydropower sites, asked to visit the Yangtze gorge. The bleak area was a fighting zone, but the Chinese Army guaranteed Savage safe conduct. In quiet broken by occasional rifle shots from the sleeping front, Savage charted possible dam sites except those above Ichang at the mouth of the gorge, which was in Jap hands...