Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When France's gaunt General de Gaulle came to Washington last week it was exactly one year since he had marched into liberated Paris behind the might of U.S. arms. It was little more than 13 months since his last visit to the U.S., when he had repaid Franklin Roosevelt's cool reserve with a stiff hauteur...
After a night at the White House, the General began the long round of duties of a distinguished visitor. He went to Arlington National Cemetery, placed a wreath at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, received the 21-gun salute due a head of state (on his previous visit it had been 17 guns-for a general...
After four days of cordiality and handshaking, and just before General de Gaulle took off for a brief visit to Hyde Park and New York, there came a joint formal statement from the White House. Its gist: the two leaders had found "a fundamental harmony between French and American aims," and had agreed on "even closer cooperation in the future...
Social Call. What about his visit to Grand Admiral Raeder-when, according to Nazi Alfred Rosenberg, he had offered a plan for Norway's invasion? Stuttered Quisling: "A social call-a misunderstanding...
...face to face, kissed cheek to cheek for the first time in six years, at a two-family get-together at Denmark's Amalienborg Castle. Sweden's aging Gustaf (87)-whose granddaughter is married to King Christian's son-went by destroyer to Copenhagen to visit his 74-year-old royal friend. Then the royal in-laws of both houses got together for a group picture to make it official...