Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deciding area of combat. Like wolves and dogs which instinctively spring for adversaries' throats, the strategists of the Axis last week seemed to be baring their fangs for the British Empire's jugular vein at its two most exposed spots. Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop's visit to Rome (see p. 29) paved the way for action against Gibraltar, and the Italian drive in Egypt was headed straight for Suez...
First in Berlin and then in Rome, Axis policy took shape. Its precise contours were draped in more than usual secrecy, but the outlines showed through. Spain's Minister of Government and Falangist Party Leader Ramón Serrano Suñer, in Berlin on a visit, had several long talks with Germany's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, then one long one with Adolf Hitler. Next day Herr von Ribbentrop left for Rome...
Back at his hotel, the Walrus talked to Adolf Hitler on the telephone. Next day he saw II Duce again, paid him a third visit before winding up his four-day mission and leaving for Berlin, where Don Ramón Serrano Suñer was still waiting to learn what Spain must do to earn her place in Hitler's brave new world...
...worships at the great imperial shrine of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami at Ise, the Mecca of Shintoism, declares that "every Japanese should go ... for it is a holy place." When Bishop Abe was raised to the episcopate last October, wrote Mr. Fey, "almost his first act was to visit a pagan shrine for worship...
...tours will visit the historic buildings in the Yard and also the Memorial Church built by alumni contributions in memory of the 373 Harvard men who died in the World...