Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That Boris had returned in broken health from a stormy visit with Adolf Hitler. Sofia and Berlin denied there had been a visit. But no one could forget other men who had left the Führer's presence the worse for wear. At Berchtesgaden in 1938, just before the annexation of Austria, stubborn Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg had been shattered by hysterics and threats...
...picture was further brightened by the signing last week of a trade treaty with Chile which took a long step toward the establishment of a customs union between the two countries. Pint-sized but patrician Foreign Minister Joaquin Fernandez himself signed the treaty in the course of a gala visit to Buenos Aires, during which relations strained by Chile's abandonment of neutrality seven months ago were cemented...
...limited recognition to the three-month-old French Committee of Liberation. Amiable Rene Massigli expressed "pride and satisfaction," the more so because the Anglo-American action released the spring that had held back Canada, Russia and most of the other United Nations. Ministers Murphy and MacMillan went on to visit Generals...
...week Sir Samuel flew to La Corufia with a stern warning for fat Franco. The time had come, Sir Samuel said, for the Caudillo to abandon his pro-Axis nonbelligerency, begin to think and act like a neutral. Sir Samuel added that the U.S. had full knowledge of his visit and message. In Franco's villa at Pazo de Leiras, outside La Corufia, Sir Samuel listed Britain's demands...
Like any convert, Eddie Rickenbacker recommends the treatment for others. "Let our great leaders, including our President and Mr. Churchill, visit Russia and Mr. Stalin [whom Churchill, but not Rickenbacker, has met], . . . We should not be too captious if Stalin has not seen fit to attend the conferences. ... He has little time for anything but immediate results...