Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Britain and Italy spat at each other last week over German coal shipments (see above), and Germany and Britain waited with different emotions for the end of the Russo-Finnish war (see p. 19), Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop suddenly announced a visit to Rome. According to one version, it was so sudden that not even Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano knew the Germans were coming until the day before they arrived. Herr Ribbentrop has a bad habit (for the Allies) of signing world-shaking treaties and pacts when he appears in foreign capitals. British diplomats quickly...
...experts to twelve (not counting the Gestapo men who accompanied him). By the time he saluted his old friend Count Galeazzo Ciano on Rome's station platform Italian newspapers were once more busy declaring that Italy intended to remain "nonbelligerent" at all costs, that the Germans' visit was simply repaying the call Count Ciano made at Berlin last November...
...German Foreign Minister saw Mussolini twice, Count Ciano several times, paid his respects to His Majesty. His visit would have been a complete frost had he not also had a pre-arranged date with Pope Pius XII. Vatican and Nazi relations have long been just about as unfriendly as they could be. They have been even more unpleasant than usual since the Nazis' harsh treatment of Catholics in conquered Poland. The Pope, moreover, has made it pretty clear that on the moral issue he is with the Allies...
...disunion in Canada. "I did not mention the word mutiny or the word riot," hedged Mitch. "I said there was a violent disturbance and there was." Norman Rogers, Canadian Minister of Defense, promptly and emphatically denied each point of the Hepburn accusation, invited Mitch and the press to visit the St. Thomas centre and see for themselves. But Mitch weaseled, refused to visit the camp, complained, "You might go to a house the day after a murder was committed there and find no evidence of a disturbance at all." In protest against the Kingfish's undignified antics, this week...
...gags weren't to stop here. Among the Warner office schemes was a plan to invite W. Russell Bowie, Jr. '41, Lampoon President, out to Hollywood for a weekend to visit Ann Sheridan. Despite the fact that the movie company was to pay all expenses including plane fare both ways, the Lampoon refused...