FOREIGN RELATIONS: Mr. Willkie Lands

When Wendell Willkie arrived by plane in England one day this week, the country was enjoying comparative quiet. A transport had shuttled him from Lisbon to a western England airport. As the plane came down, Mr. Willkie was impatiently striding up & down the aisle; the bump of the landing threw Mr. Willkie flat. Back on his feet and brushed off, he burst out of the cabin door. "I never felt better in my life," he exclaimed. To reporters who knew who he was but wanted to know what he was, he said, "I am just Wendell Willkie," and...

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