Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than three months later when Sumner Welles, tired of waiting for the Chileans to take effective action, made his now famous Boston speech, which caused Chile's President Rios to postpone a visit to Washington, then to change his Cabinet...
...well. In the blazer which he puts on to avoid the saluting problem when he drifts around to a cricket match at Cairo's Gezira Club, he looks something like a pale, thin gremlin. His appearance worries his friends. Lord Trenchard, Marshal of the whole R.A.F., on a visit to Middle East headquarters kept asking him: "Are you all right, Arthur...
...Winston Churchill, during his visit to Russia last summer, had some success in persuading Russian officialdom of the dangers of a second front...
Australia. Baldwin's only second-hand reports concerned Australia, which he did not visit. Wrote he: "Australia's internal problems have rendered MacArthur's position . . . difficult. . . . The importance of his coming and of the arrival of American troops to Australian politics is obvious. Prime Minister John Curtin's political position naturally was strengthened by these events. . . . The Australian War Cabinet naturally continued to reserve to itself a considerable share of authority. Military decisions in Australia and the adjacent area (i.e., New Guinea) have not always been General MacArthur...
Last week Henry Morgenthau Jr. returned from a three-week visit to London where he had 1) received a feeler on becoming world statesman of Zionism, 2) talked long and seriously with British Treasury officials...