Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Axel Gorm Andersen, who lives in Woodside, L. I., is five. Last spring, when the Nazis invaded Norway, little Axel found himself in Trondheim, 4,000 miles from home. Mrs. Andersen had taken Axel to show him to his great-aunt and left him there for a visit, never dreaming that the Nazi war machine would sweep that far north...
...East, emitted troubled grunts but nothing more. Four times her minister in Bucharest called at the Foreign Office to protest. First against the "atti tude, of the Rumanian press," then the "campaign labeling all Rumanian criminals as Communists," then the "general unfriendly Rumanian attitude." On his fourth visit he demanded that impotent Rumania explain the presence of the in creasing Nazi hordes and give an immediate answer to his other protests. Reports that 30 crack Soviet divisions had ar rived in Bessarabia to counter Hitler's Army, and that the region of Odessa was under martial law, sent Rumanians...
...musical exchange within the Axis. Titian-dyed, corseted Italian Coloratura Soprano Toti dal Monte (a onetime success in the U. S.) sang to great applause in Berlin. The Cologne Opera is touring The Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Italy; the Frankfurt am Main Opera the Balkans. The Berlin State Opera will visit Milan and Rome this spring; the Rome Opera will visit Germany...
...screen, due to constructional troubles, these sure-fire ingredients never quite jell into good melodrama. Scenarist John Balderston's script spends so much valuable time setting the scene and building the characters, it has to whisk through Mr. Jones's horrendous visit to Samburan. A line-up of Hollywood's most finished actors, nicely guided by the delicate directional hand of John Cromwell, holds long points, like patient bird dogs, for the chills. Then in a few hurried strokes, the villains are disposed of and it is time for the clinch...
First the Japanese proposed sending as negotiator General Kuniaki Koiso, who, after a previous visit to the Indies, had publicly made some abusive remarks about the Dutch. The Dutch said he would not be acceptable. The Japanese sent instead a Cabinet Minister, Ichizo Kobayashi of Commerce and Industry. To receive him fittingly, Queen Wilhelmina cabled from London raising Hubertus J. Van Mook. Director of the Department of Economic Affairs, to the rank of Cabinet Minister of the Dutch Government-in-Exile...