Word: legatione
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Hearing that a group of 300 young U.S. sightseers had been stranded in her bailiwick, U.S. Minister to Luxembourg Perle Mesta quickly opened a lunch counter at the U.S. legation, doled out free baked beans, ham sandwiches, apple pie and coffee. Said Hostess Mesta: "No American boy or girl is...
All this can be done. This is not just one man's idea; it is also that of U.S. Minister Donald Heath, whose personnel is pouring into Indo-China. Five months ago, only seven men were attached to the U.S. legation in Saigon, and now there are-nearly 200...
Doodling. "On leaving the legation building at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 20, 1949, I bicycled down toward the tennis club . . . When I had reached the little park on Shipka Street, I was overtaken and passed by a civilian on a bicycle that did not bear any license plate, a...
[By this time Shipkov had invented espionage incidents involving many of his friends and several members of the U.S. Legation staff.]
"Clear memory came back to me on Monday morning, Aug. 22, when I started out to work. My most anxious thoughts then and thereafter were to cleanse myself of some of this depravity and baseness ... by giving the Legation a true statement of the whole affair . . . Therefore, I state in...