Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...door of No. 10 Downing Street swung open for Polish Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk. Around a large table in the Cabinet Room he sat with Prime Minister Winston Churchil, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, others. For an hour he talked of his Washington visit, his five cordial meetings with President Roosevelt. The conference ended in an air of optimism, subdued but real. The men at this meeting really believed that the Polish-Russian feud might soon be ended...
Last year Mrs. Spruance and Margaret moved to Monrovia, Calif., where the Admiral could visit them occasionally. There he became a reluctant celebrity...
...General smiled, gave them a message: "Please tell your chief that I am on my way to visit General Montgomery's headquarters and will be in Bayeux within an hour." People's Man. In Bayeux, first French town liberated by Anglo-American arms, loudspeakers blared the news of the General's coming. Hurriedly shops closed, Tricolors were unfurled. The people went into the streets. Children ran alongside their elders, pestered them with questions, heard only the words, "De Gaulle! General de Gaulle...
...this regimen, Franklin Roosevelt had no business appointments at lunch, took swims in the White House pool. But he made news: he casually mentioned that General de Gaulle had asked to visit him (see FOREIGN NEWS). He said he had given the General two dates for the visit: June 22 to 30, or July 6 to 14. A newsman asked: why these dates? They were the first available, said the President. "There's a convention coming in there," said the newsman. Oh yes, the President replied, there are conventions about that time, and elections next fall, and Christmas...
...many a commander in chief before him, he settled down to chain-smoking cigarets, to sweating out a miserable period of waiting-of confused, skimpy, incomplete reports, while other men put his campaign plans to the test. Not until five days later could he make his first brief inspection visit to the beachhead. Then he had eminent companions: General Marshall, Admiral King and General Arnold, who had flown from Washington to London during the week...