Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newspapers; a look at overnight cables. Often, these days, there are also quick conferences with State Department chiefs. Languid, shrewd Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins often sits in, listening more than talking, unmindful of smoke curling into his eyes from a forgotten cigaret. When the grandchildren are on a visit, one is usually climbing around the bed (Franklin III or Sara...
Royal Air Force bombers paid a visit to Nazi Rotterdam one dawn last week. Just to make sure Germany would have fuel trouble in mounting her invasion of Britain, they rebombed the oil storage tanks along the Maas, reported "a great explosion ... lit up the adjoining docks and waterways. Flames rose several hundred feet. ... It is believed they are now totally destroyed...
...week's end, M. Reynaud paid Mr. Churchill a visit in London and presently a new Chief of the British Imperial Staff was announced, replacing General Sir Edmund Ironside, who was put in charge of home defense (see p. 27). In a switch strategically parallel to the Weygand-for-Gamelin move, Mr. Churchill called on General Sir John Greer Dill, who was brought home from his command of the B. E. F. First Corps in France in April to be Sir Edmund's Vice Chief and standin. Sir John, 58 and Irish, is accounted the British Army...
...them from these soldier-journalists, handed out daily at press conferences by the Propaganda Ministry. But so proud, last week, was Adolf Hitler of his Army's swift advance through Flanders to the English Channel, that he issued a "personal invitation" to three alien news men to visit the front...
...Charterhouse Street, London, offices of Diamond Corp. and its subsidiary, Diamond Trading Co. There, on an upper floor, the lords of Britain's cushiest monopoly linger over luncheons washed down with fine hock, occasionally notify their approved customers (and them only) that their application for a "sight" (buying visit) has been approved. "Sights" are no occasions for unbending. Customers look over parcels of stones, good and bad, take all or none, and take them at Diamond Corp.'s price. Widespread among buyers is the impression that when the price is too high, and no sale is made, Diamond...