Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany's attack on Russia. For years we have been fed the story of Chiang Kai-shek's wonderful accomplishment of uniting the Chinese people and of holding off the Japs, which is now being belittled. Our correspondents complain of the censorship and not being allowed to visit the Chinese front. Are they any more restricted than in Russia, from whose fronts even our military observers are barred? It is remarkable that Chiang has been able to keep so many of the war lords on one side through seven years of war, without arms, medical supplies, shoes...
...73rd birthday, last Oct. 2, the Administration's No. 1 Cabinet officer showed up as usual at his office, but he complained: "I'm sick and I know it." Next day he stayed home. For the past five weeks, with an occasional bedside visit from Franklin Roosevelt, good, grey Cordell Hull has lain abed in the Naval Hospital at Bethesda, Md., under observation and treatment for a throat ailment and exhaustion. This week, reluctantly and on his doctor's advice, Cordell Hull resigned as Secretary of State...
...curious footnote to history bobbed up in the wake of General de Gaulle's Moscow visit. Before Joseph Stalin, Charles de Gaulle had met one other Soviet marshal-Mikhail Tukhachevsky, the Red Army's brilliant Chief of Staff and No. 1 mechanizer, who was liquidated in the 1937 purge of the Russian high command...
These two officers will be escorted through the training center and will visit several classes...
...military merger of Britain and Belgium was only a first step. During Prime Minister Winston Churchill's visit to General de Gaulle, Communist influence had muffled talk of a Western Bloc (TIME, Nov. 20). But Foreign Minister Spaak would not stay muffled. He said: "I want to emphasize that the Dumbarton Oaks scheme made particular reference to what are called regional arrangements. Belgium can envisage the conclusion of a regional accord with France, The Netherlands, Luxembourg and possibly Norway...