Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Turkey would go to war with any country that started invading the Balkans. "While Turkey is doing all she can to prevent the war from spreading, no one can be sure that this can be avoided," he added. The Premier's point of view was underlined by a visit to Ankara of General Maxime Weygand, chief of the big French and Arab Army assembled in nearby Syria...
...rose to question the War Secretary one day last week. What of the visit young Edmund Ironside (15-year-old Tonbridge schoolboy, son of Britain's Chief of Imperial General Staff) had recently made to France? Was this not stretching privilege? Would the sons of privates be permitted to visit their fathers at the front...
Polite War Secretary Oliver Stanley replied that Edmund had gone to France on the personal invitation of France's Gen eralissimo Maurice Gamelin, to see his father get the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. It was "a very exceptional" visit ; probably no other children would be allowed to go to the war zone...
...then that the expedition turned toward the American shores and followed the route taken by Columbus. The sources of information for this route were old manuscripts and records of his voyages. After a visit to the Canary Islands, the ships headed toward Triuidad. Then they followed the coast of South and Central America according to the courses, mapped out by the old records, when they left the island of Triuidad which they reached on December...
Meanwhile, on a visit to the U. S., Violinist Rothschild sold the idea, and a number of his old recordings, to Columbia. Columbia repressed some of the old Rothschild discs, made some new ones, last week issued a catalogue of "Add-a-Part" records, including pianoless and violinless sonatas for violin and piano, celloless and violaless string quartets. Columbia officials were bullish on their venture, foresaw Krupaless and Goodmanless hot records, possibly sololess "Sweet Adeline's" for lonely drinkers...