Word: legatione
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Then one fine sunny day the telephone rang in Russia's Athens legation. It was the Greek Press Agency, asking which Soviet vice commissar of war had just com mitted suicide. Barmine did not know the answer but he foresaw the worst.
Writes Barmine: "That evening the legation staff gathered as usual to hear the Moscow broadcast. We exchanged small talk and even tried to make a few jokes. Nobody dared mention what was upper most in his mind. Over the air came the colorless voice of the Moscow spokesman : the subway...
Soon Barmine received a letter from one of his twin sons in Russia: "Dear Papa, they read to us in school the sentence passed on the Trotskyist spies, Tukhachevsky, Yakir, Kork, Uborevich and Feldman. . . . Wasn't it Feldman who used to live in our apartment house?" It was. And...
The legation's secret NKVD agent took Barmine out for a drink and regaled him with stories of his former success in kidnapping recalcitrant comrades. Then he added: "You know, it wouldn't be difficult to get rid of a man in this country. There's always...
Before long, everybody knew that the signaling gentleman was U.S. District Attorney Philip Barton Key, son of the famed composer of The Star-Spangled Banner. They knew, too, that the lady was Teresa Sickles, daughter of an Italian opera conductor and lovely wife of the distinguished young Daniel Edgar Sickles...