Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louisiana State University student comic miscellany (the Whangdoodle) printed a story of a fictitious visit by a Baton Rouge telegrapher to a professor's wife while the professor was away. Its undergraduate author was promptly expelled. The governor asked the university's president to reinstate him. The president refused. Soon the university had anew president...
...Shock of Reality. The U.S. was shocked. It should not have been. Power politics still dominated Europe, and the past masters of power politics were the masters of the Kremlin. Ever since Winston Churchill's last visit to Russia (TIME, Oct. 16 et seq.), there had been little doubt that, for a free hand in the Mediterranean, he had been forced to grant Russia a free hand in Poland and the upper Balkans...
...September Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt and an armed escort drove to Berchtesgaden to visit Hitler...
...ended his 16-day visit General de Gaulle said: "I am sure the days we have spent here will leave their mark on the history of this war and I believe, too, they will leave their mark on the peace for the good of all men. Long live Soviet Russia!" Shaking hands with Foreign Commissar Molotov, he added: "Thank you for everything...
Archduke Felix, tall, thin, third-string heir to Austria-Hungary's vanished throne, bobbed up in Mexico City (first Habsburg to visit Mexico since his ancestor, the Emperor Maximilian, was shot there), denied that his visit was political, failed to get audiences with Mexico's President Avila Camacho. Russia's Ambassador Constantine Oumansky departed declaring that if he had his way Spanish would replace German as Austria's national tongue...