Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...visit from Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, gave him a full fill-in on Yalta (see CANADA...
Died. Dorothea Wieck (rhymes with sheik), 37, fragile, sad-eyed German cinemactress (Maedchen in Uniform), whose 1933 Hollywood visit was cut short by inept roles and whisperings that she was a Nazi spy; in an Allied air raid (according to German report); in Dresden, Germany...
Lillian Hellman, tart-tongued problematic playwright, home from a four-month visit in the U.S.S.R., brought a startlingly simple solution to a major postwar problem: at the front she said she met "high-ranking Red Army men" who asked her what the U.S. is going to do about Argentina. When she countered, "What is Russia going to do about Franco?", the officers told her they would handle fascism in Europe, hoped the U.S. would do the same on this side of the world. Although Miss Hellman did not get to see Stalin, she did become one of the very...
...fervent plea for adoption of the Bretton Woods monetary agreement. Before a House committee, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson made an able argument for the continuation of Lend-Lease. And Secretary of State Stettinius turned up in Moscow, where he chatted with Molotov and made the required visit to the ballet. Four days later he appeared at Brazilian President Getulio Vargas' summer home in the mountains above Rio, for a chat on his way to the Hemisphere conference at Mexico City...
Died. Charles D. ("King of the Arctic") Brower, 83, rich Alaskan whaling and trading bigwig, famed host whom the late Will Rogers and Wiley Post were flying to visit when their plane crashed in 1935; of a heart attack; in Point Barrow, Alaska...