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The Italian Legation guard in Peiping and small Italian garrisons in Tientsin and Shanhaikwan were disarmed. The Italian diplomatic mission in Tokyo was confined to its quarters and held incommunicado. The bulk of the 1,100 Italian nationals in the Far East, of whom almost 900 are in Shanghai, were...
Irked, he called the Canadian Legation in Washington, asked Minister Counselor Leslie Bowles Pearson to appeal to President Roosevelt. President Roosevelt saw his point. Washington's first communique was revised from "Anglo-American" forces to mention "Canadian, British and U.S." forces. Canadian troops, said Mackenzie King, "are entitled to...
Almost lost in the stir created by the visit of Winston Churchill and his military entourage was another European statesman: stubby, sad-eyed Eduard Benes, Czecho-Slovakia's President in Exile. At the White House, where he was an overnight guest, Eduard Benes got a warm welcome; Franklin Roosevelt...
But Dr. Benes will have much to discuss with President Roosevelt: commitments on CzechoSlovakia's postwar composition and sovereignty; his views on eastern Europe, including his ideas for federations of small states, complete accord with Russia, and the urgency of reuniting Yugoslavia's warring factions. He also will...
Last week a sudden order from the State Department sent six members of the American Legation at Helsinki flying off to Stockholm with their families. Left to carry on with one clerk, one telephone operator, was Charge d'Affaires Robert M. McClintock. Left to stew and wonder was Finland...