Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was Adolf Hitler's first visit to the Forest of Compiégne, where Louis XVI received Marie-Antoinette and Napoleon received Marie-Louise, where 510 years ago Joan of Arc surrendered to the Duke of Burgundy and 22 years ago a delegation of Germans signed an armistice dictated by France's Marshal Ferdinand Foch. Before Adolf Hitler as he stepped out of the car stood France's monument to Alsace-Lorraine. German war flags covered the sculptured sword thrust into a limp German eagle. Swastika banners hid the inscription beneath: To the Heroic Soldiers...
Other signs of German conviction that peace is just around the corner were the preparations in German tourist offices throughout the world for a late summer season. Brand-new "Visit Heidelberg and the Rhineland" posters appeared in their windows and leaflets were circulated announcing that the Bayreuth Wagnerian Festival would be held this year as usual, featuring Wagner's Parsifal, one of the few German operas extolling peace...
...Diaz and the Allied rescue staff (including France's Weygand) reorganize the Army on the Piave, and planned the final push at Vittorio Veneto in October 1918 which knocked Austria out of World War I. He has been Chief of Staff intermittently ever since, with time out to visit the U. S. (1921), govern Libya (1928-33), finish De Bono's job in Ethiopia. He masterminded Franco's victory in Spain (though he refused to campaign, saying: "I have never been a chief of mercenaries") and studiously applied lessons learned there about mechanization...
...resolution nominating to a third term. . . . You can boo, but he'll be your next President. . . . The President has asked me to deliver to you his sincere wishes for a successful convention [Interruption: Then why don't you sit down? . . . The President . . . ex pressed a sincere desire . . . visit Louisiana . " participate in the fishing and duck hunting. . . ." The shaken Senator could not go on, left the platform...
...time out to listen to war news. As a wind-up celebration Producer Wanger (proud of his first venture into the arts) gave them a reception attended by 400 of Hollywood's Who's Who. Afterwards cinema stars were heard to declare that they were going to visit some art galleries, now that they knew how painting was done. How they had got their own paintings done was not so clear to the painters...