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...Westward to get this news flew a covey of G. O. P. professionals: National Chairman Joe Martin, General Counsel Henry Prather Fletcher, Executive Director John D. M. Hamilton, several others. They found Wendell Willkie on the sixth floor of The Broadmoor hotel, having the time of his life. In shirt sleeves, crinkled trousers, bedroom slippers he worked, read, chatted amid a continual clatter of a dozen typists (two days behind on 600 incoming wires and letters per day), incessant callers, whanging telephones (The Broadmoor had to install a special Willkie switchboard). He left his spacious suite (three rooms...
...British found their enemies, the Turks, in Asia and drove eastward and northward from the Canal into Arabia, Palestine and Syria. In World War II, when Italy declared war in June, the British found their enemies on the other side of the gate and faced about to fight westward and southward...
...Italian. To make a sweep along the Italian south coast at a moment when the Italians might suppose him preoccupied with disarming surrendered French units at Alexandria, Sir Andrew took his squadron, led by his flagship, the War spite, and two sister battleships on a full-speed dash westward. To scour the sea carefully and not reveal his full force, it was natural for Sir Andrew to split his command into two or more columns, one of which was the force seen by the Italian scout south of Crete. In the night the columns made rendezvous. Off Cape Spartivento next...
...class who gabbled in Italian, Norwegian, Danish; enough black-tied plutocrats, equally scared, to inspire Captain George V. Richardson to dub his cargo "refugees in dinner coats"; seminarians from the North American (Catholic) College in Rome, relaxing in sport clothes as bright as Joseph's raiment. Also bound westward (from Ireland) was the refugee-laden President Roosevelt. Cracked incorrigible Londoners, awaiting Hitler's bombs: "Gone With the Wind...
Comrades, we're marching westward...