Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early as October 1943, during a visit to Moscow, Secretary Hull reported Stalin's promise, without being asked and without attaching strings, that Russia would fight Japan after finishing up in Europe...
Even if Sir Winston should resign as scheduled, he has no intention of leaving the House of Commons. At 80, he has plans to travel to Russia as a "private person," just as his father did; to visit Germany and receive the Charlemagne Prize (for services to European unity) from the city of Aachen. He would continue to live at Chartwell, his lovely home in Kent, going to the House of Commons on special occasions to deliver speeches to which all the world would still listen...
Just before leaving for a good-will visit to the U.S., Italy's careful little Premier, Mario Scelba, faced trouble inside his precarious four-party coalition government. Two small groups in the coalition were quarreling, and the Christian Democrats' own ambitious and powerful secretary-general, Amintore Fanfani, was demanding an immediate showdown (TIME, March...
...company used by the Chinese Reds. Chiang Kai-shek vowed to seize the ship as soon as she came within range of his guns or planes. A detachment of five U.S. warships, including the aircraft carrier Kearsarge, steamed into the Singapore roadstead on what was in fact a routine visit; whereupon the Red Chinese radio began to crackle with warnings against any attempted "American piracy." Meanwhile, on steamed the Aruba, southward through the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, eastward across the Indian Ocean...
John Foster Dulles, who has traveled some 200,000 miles since becoming U.S. Secretary of State, had never made the easiest possible diplomatic trip: the hop across the border for an official visit to Canada. Last week, while the controversy over the Yalta papers boiled up at home (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Dulles acted on a long-standing invitation and flew to Ottawa for a two-day stay as the guest of Governor-General Vincent Massey...