Word: legatione
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For three days the filthy, ancient city shook as shell after shell poured into some of the most congested areas on earth. Hundreds of Arab dead lay in the bazaars and narrow streets. Shells hit the overstaffed Russian legation, the Syrian Parliament building, the plush Orient Palace Hotel. A U.S...
No longer enjoying British sanctuary from his Russian-controlled Government was another Balkan notable: Rumanian ex-Premier General Nicolai Radescu. He escaped to the British Legation in Bucharest last March, but has since returned to his home in Bucharest.
Rumania. Anthony Eden in London, the State Department in Washington confirmed the news that the U.S. and Britain were "in consultation" with Moscow over the new Government in Bucharest (TIME, March 19). But London and Washington clearly did not intend to let the Rumanian issue make or break Big Three...
"Next morning early we were swamped with telephone calls. The British Embassy wanted copies-the Psychological Warfare Branch asked for copies to be distributed to its operators throughout the Balkans-the Yugoslav Legation placed a sizable order for Tito and his staff. Rest camps and hospitals were quick to ask...
After five years of Italian and German occupation, Tirana, the Albanian capital, was mostly intact, though the retreating Germans had wrecked the British Legation. From the U.S. Legation, they took only the caretaker's guitar.