Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into the wide, sunlit harbor of Sydney, New South Wales, one morning last week steamed a squadron of seven U. S. warships. While flags dipped, bombers droned overhead, ships' guns and shore batteries boomed a 21-gun salute, the biggest detachment of the U. S. Fleet to visit Australia in 16 years tied up at the big docks in Woolloomooloo Bay. Ashore piled 2,000 officers and men, leaving aboard the luckless few who had the duty...
Interviewed on a recent visit to Harvard, Rufus M. Jones, professor of Philosophy, emeritus, at Haverford College, and Chairman of the American Friend's service Committee, declared that if president Roosevelt gave his support to the plan for sending food to the conquered democracies, Great Britain would more than likely assent to the passage of the food ships...
...President's "anonymous" assistants, he would not say a word about his trip. But from Chungking bits of news about it came in as fast as the Clippers could fly the Pacific. There was no question about the effect on China of Lauchlin Currie's visit: Chinese thought it was wonderful. The Chinese had been heartened by this sign of U. S. interest, had given the President's emissary all honors and all opportunities, had made no secret of China's dependence...
German spokesmen also predicted surprises as a result of Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka's visit to Berlin (see col 1). But in Berlin, as in Rome, it was admitted that U. S. aid to Britain would probably prolong the war. One German broadcaster verified Germany's concern and coined a phrase in the same sentence: he called President Roosevelt "the hangman of the young nations...
Wheeler's charge was prompted by revelation that a U.S. Navy squadron of seven warships is due at Sydney, Australia, tomorrow on a "good-will" visit. A six-warship squadron is concluding a similar visit to Auckland...