Word: legatione
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The masked men did not molest the legation women and children, or Stoffel's two attaches, who escaped to the street. To the sound of smashing wood and glass, the masked men began ransacking the big house. When the Swiss police arrived, shivering, pajama-clad Stoffel, pleading diplomatic privilege...
The Swiss Watch. Still the cops did not try to storm the big house. As one of the masked men tried to leave the legation, he was captured by the cops. He said that he and his accomplices were all members of a Rumanian anti-Communist resistance movement and had...
Chargé d'Affaires Stoffel, in an official diplomatic note to the Swiss Foreign Office, demanded immediate arrest and extradition of the attackers, accused the Swiss police of "inexcusable tardiness." He said that the attack was an "act of banditry without precedent" by "a gang of Rumanian fascists and...
The Undone Oath. Refusing to be provoked by Communist taunts, the police acted cautiously. Commissioner Kurt Kessi called the legation on the telephone, asked to be admitted with an interpreter. Kessi found three tall young men in the legation. For two hours he spoke to the leader, trying to get...
Next morning Kessi saw the Rumanians again. The leader told Kessi that the Communists had killed his father in Rumania and that he had taken an oath "to fight to the end." Kessi suggested that a Catholic priest. Father Beat Lorenz Seckinger, could absolve the Rumanian leader of his oath...