Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most quoted American in the Russian press last week. Moscow's papers gave only four sentences to the President's message to Congress (see above). Wallace's rebuttal got two columns. One Nancy Norman, a U.S. ballet dancer, back in London after a six-weeks' visit to Moscow, said that Wallace was "Russia's No. 1 foreign...
...days after his visit to his father's grave, on a bright sunny afternoon, Jan Masaryk went to see Benes at his peaceful country home. They remained alone for an hour, talking. During the two intervening days Masaryk had complained repeatedly of insomnia. When he left Benes' country home for the 60-mile drive back to Prague, Masaryk offered his bodyguard a cigarette. "I can't smoke on duty," said the guard. "You can smoke with me," said Masaryk. He took a puff or two, stamped it out, and slumped in sleep. He awoke...
Last week President Juho K. Paasikivi named his negotiators for the Russian pact. Four were proCommunists, but three had said that they opposed a military alliance with Russia. To those delegates reluctant to make the humiliating Kremlin visit, Paasikivi said: "There is no question of whether you have any desire to do this or that. This is compulsory labor...
Paris' Raymond Duncan, exoatriate brother of Dancer Isadora, headed for San Francisco on his first visit to hu old home town in 38 years, stopped off en route at Los Angeles, in flowing Grecian robes, sandals, long hair and all, and explained his philosophy of actionalism: "I'm not teaching-I'm living a philosophy. I'm like a rabbit on a vivisection table: I'm living...
...Tories brought in their heavy artillery: Anthony Eden (currently recovering from an appendectomy in a London hospital) made an evening visit, and Winston Churchill motored over a twelve-mile route, chewing a cigar, extending his "V" sign, stopping frequently for short bursts of Churchillian oratory...