Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dulles prepared himself in two days & nights of conferences with Tom Dewey in Albany. En route to Washington, he stopped over in Manhattan to talk to Wendell Willkie. A joint Willkie-Dulles communique described their visit as a "full exchange of views not animated by partisan considerations." Then he motored on to the capital, using special gasoline coupons; his doctor said he was not up to train travel. (On his return from the conferences with Cordell Hull, Dulles underwent a two-hour operation on his foot.) In Washington, Mr. Dulles talked with G.O.P. leaders as well as Cordell Hull. Among...
Tall, nervous Sandy Patch had plenty of good news to report when his boss, U.S. Lieut. General Jacob L. Devers, dropped in for a visit. Said Patch in a proud order of the day: "We have achieved a great initial victory. The enemy in our area is perplexed and stunned. ... I therefore call on every officer and every man, regardless of fatigue or possible shortage of food and equipment, for uninterrupted continuation of their maximum energy and endurance so that the enemy may not have time to recover. . . . The opportunity for a decisive result is in front...
While the monsoon rains beat a devil's tattoo on the elephant-iron roofs of the Southeast Asia Command. Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten returned last week to his headquarters in Ceylon from a visit to London. In Britain he had conferred on measures to be taken when the monsoon lifts in the fall. By that time war materials of every sort can flow from the battles in the West to battles still to be fought in the East. Meantime, the Southeast Asia Command had time for recapitulation and appraisal...
Henry Morgenthau was reported by Berlin radio to have stolen the great Bayeux Tapestry, the 231-foot masterpiece showing the Norman invaders, during the Secretary's recent visit to Normandy-thus adding the charge of libel to those for which Germany's war criminals may be tried...
Winston Churchill was quoted by Columnist Hannen Swaffer in the London Herald as remarking at a dinner party: "There will soon come a time when the sands will run out and I shall pay a little visit to the country to write a few notes on the events of the past five years...