Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the first, Lew Douglas got along with everyone, from Communist Arthur Horner to Imperialist Winston Churchill, from the King & Queen to a 66-year-old miner's wife, who bussed him after his visit to a Yorkshire coal mine. At parties and receptions at Prince's Gate, he had the happy faculty of greeting each guest as though the affair had been a complete flop until the latest arrival. British Laborites were frankly delighted to have a man who was in tune with Washington economic thinking and could speak with authority for the official...
Gide's individualism led him to reject Communism (after a visit to the U.S.S.R. in 1936), and to scorn vulgar popularity. He once wrote: "I have passionately desired fame . . . [but] I like to be liked on good grounds." Apparently Gide, who thinks membership in the French Academy is beneath him, thought the Swedish Academy liked him on good grounds. He said the Nobel award made him "very happy." He was also richer by 146,115 Swedish crowns...
Onetime agriculture missionary to Russia (in 1929) and Great Britain (in 1941) by Government invitation, white-haired, dapper Tom Campbell owns huge wheat acreage in Montana. On a visit to the White House, Campbell told President Truman that he was withholding all of his current crop-some 610,000 bushels-because he wanted to get as much as he could for it. One way to get farmers to sell, he said, was for the Government to peg the price of wheat at about $3.50 a bushel, some 50? above the current price. The President said he didn't blame...
...Democratic League man hopped into the green Chrysler sedan inherited last year from departing Communist Negotiator Chou Enlai, and drove to the Soviet Embassy. He entered the Embassy with an interesting box, came back to his car without it. Fledgling plainclothesmen got their ears scorched when they reported his visit. "Ai ya!" groaned a Chinese detective superintendent, "Why didn't you pretend a collision, yell, stop the car, claim, the box-anything...
Handsome, good-natured Rafael Caldera has been a teacher of sociology at the University of Caracas. When he was only 20, he helped draft Venezuela's labor code, still in force. He has lost none of his interest in labor; last year, on a visit to the U.S., he made a point of consulting C.I.O. leaders. Briefly, before going into opposition, he was attorney general in President Romulo Betancourt's revolutionary government...