Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Hopkins said that he was in London to discuss confidential matters With Mr. Churchill; what could be more confidential than a plan for counterinvasion of Europe? General Marshall said that his sudden visit was just a long-intended look-see. But the press preferred to accent General Marshall's casual answer to a casual query. Said he (when asked whether soldiers accustomed to U.S. spaces would feel cramped in England): "We want to expand over here...
Which Front? Back in Britain after a visit to Ottawa and the White House, Canada's Lieut. General Andrew George Latta McNaughton was preaching invasion through France and expanding his Canadian Corps into a full army. In Northern Ireland were several thousand U.S. troops, rarin' to go and practicing invasion tactics. More were coming: an Army colonel announced that Boston was to be an embarkation point for many troops and supplies (see p. 16). One subject of discussion was drastically intensified bombing of western Germany by both British and U.S. flyers...
Whether or not these arguments were advanced by Marshall & Hopkins, they were the beliefs of the common man in Britain. By their mere presence, Marshall & Hopkins enormously increased the home pressure on Winston Churchill. But, whatever the decision, the visit promised Churchill political as well as military relief and support. For it would now, obviously, be a joint decision. Henceforth the U.S. would share with Britain the responsibility for inaction, or the costs of action...
Twins. In Cambridge, Minn., Edgar Wilson paid a visit to the home of his twin brother Edward, dropped dead. Five minutes later Edward dropped dead...
...second request, however, the Swiss, an ingenious people who make watches, thought up a "semiofficial" way to deliver the note. An attaché of the Swiss Foreign Office at Berne, they suggested, might pay a visit to a secretary of the Legation of Hungary (or Rumania or Bulgaria) and mention that the Swiss Legation in Washington happened to have learned that the U.S. Government was thinking of declaring war on Hungary (and Rumania and Bulgaria). Indeed, he even happened to have got hold of a copy of a note to that effect. Dropping the note on the table, the Swiss...