Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Journeyed out to the Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Md., to visit old Cordell Hull, sick abed with a throat ailment...
Back at his Paris desk the French leader found a message, just arrived from Moscow: Marshal Stalin could not at present accept General de Gaulle's invitation to visit Paris. But would General de Gaulle care to call on Marshal Stalin at the Kremlin...
This time there was no question of offering union to General de Gaulle. But implied in Churchill's visit was Britain's plan for a power bloc of western European countries (TIME, Nov. 13), proposed a year ago by South Africa's Prime Minister Jan Christian Smuts, energetically pushed since then by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. The London Times had argued: "[The West Bloc] is a necessary complement to the system of security which Soviet Russia ... is building up in eastern Europe. Both for Britain and western Europe [it] represents a departure from tradition. . . . But for both...
Less impressive than Winston Churchill's visit to Paris, but important in the pattern of Europe's power politics, were goings & comings to & from Moscow...
...recent meeting of the staid Soviet cultural society VOKS, lively protests were loudly uttered by U.S. and British correspondents because, unlike Soviet newsmen, they are not allowed to visit the Russian front (TIME, Oct. 16). The first protesting speech was made by the Philadelphia Inquirer's Al Kendrick, himself a native of Stalin's own Georgia and longtime student of Russian history. Only result of the complaints: an embarrassed changing of the subject. Last week, Correspondent Kendrick, fed up with cabling home rehashes of the Moscow papers, suggested that he be recalled. The Inquirer's managing editor...