Word: legatione
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Few parents ever faced a more heartbreaking decision than that which last spring confronted Rumanian-born Valeriu Georgescu, a Standard Oil (N.J.) executive, and his wife in New York. For six years-ever since being banned from their native land by its Communist government -they had not seen their two...
A new revolt was forming near Cap-Haitien, under an ambitious politico named Guillaume Sam. Admiral William B. Caperton, U.S.N., on the U.S.S. Washington, met Sam unofficially and offered him tacit support, urgently warning Sam not to "loot or burn down the cities." But once in office, Sam balked at...
Ten thousand Jews jammed the streets of Red Bucharest in front of the new Israeli legation on Valentine's Day 1949, dancing and crying "Long live Israel." After 15 years of Fascist pogroms and four more of Communist misery, the exhilarating dream of the promised land had suddenly become...
Horse Artillery. Across the Adriatic in the land of Tito, the reaction was more violent and menacing than the Western powers had anticipated. Yugoslavs rolled onto the streets of Belgrade swinging placards (WE WILL GIVE OUR LIVES, BUT NOT AN INCH OF TRIESTE! TRIESTE IS OURS!) and chanting slogans ("Trieste...
When that laconic message crossed his desk in 1932, Secretary of State Henry Stimson asked: Who is Willis? A look at the files revealed that Willis was Frances E. (for Elizabeth) Willis, 33, third secretary in the U.S. legation in Stockholm. In the absence of the minister and his top...