Word: legatione
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Thus in 1871 did Poet Alfred Austin report for the British people the illness of their Prince of Wales, later Edward VII. The Kingdom of Jordan boasts no such newsy poet as Britain's Laureate Austin, but last week Jordan's King Talal took to the wires to...
Professional Background: Entered the U.S. foreign service at 22, was spotted as a bright young man in 1933 and pulled out of the U.S. legation in Riga, Latvia, to help U.S. Ambassador William Bullitt open the first U.S. embassy in Moscow since the Russian Revolution. In 1946, when he was...
For more than a month, the world's most powerful nation huffed & puffed, but it could not budge a minor Soviet slave state. Four U.S. flyers, lost over Hungary on a routine C-47 cargo flight from Germany to Yugoslavia, had been forced down by Red fighter planes (TIME...
The Communist Tudeh (masses) Party was busy. In recent months, droves of Russian agents have been sneaking across Iran's all but unguarded northeastern border. Their mission: to stir up riots and mastermind the revolution when Iran is judged ripe to be taken over. Of the same stock and...
But, for all the din, the violence had subsided in Egypt's fight with Britain-and her allies-over control of the Suez Canal and the Sudan. Though they had stood by a fortnight ago while Egyptian mobs demonstrated and rioted in the streets, Egyptian leaders/last week issued a...