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...quietest streets in the quietest capital in Europe, walked four masked men. The time was 10 p.m. Coming to No. 5, which is the Rumanian legation, they climbed quietly over a high iron-grille fence. Looming above them in the snowy darkness was the big building presided over by Chargé d'Affaires Emeric Stoffel. To their left, in a chalet-type house near the street, was the chancellery, where lived Aurel Setu, nominally the chauffeur, but actually the secret police boss of the Communist legation. The leader of the masked men rang the bell at the chancellery. "Step...
Four hours later in the big house, Chargé d'Affaires Stoffel was awakened by a burst of shots. A few minutes later some masked men with Tommy guns broke into his room. Stoffel dashed for the next room, followed by a burst of gunfire. Leaping through a window, he landed in the garden, and fled to the neighbors. Said he later, explaining why he left his wife and children behind: "I put myself into safety . . . This is not the kind of thing that happens in everyday diplomatic life...
...companions were armed with automatic weapons and grenades, he warned, and would resist "until death" because they knew that there was no escape for them. Searching him, cops found papers he had scooped up in the legation. After a prudent interval, the Swiss diplomatically returned the papers to Chargé d'Affaires Stoffel...
Next it was China's turn to welcome the world's No. 1 international bureaucrat. On the way to Peking by plane, Hammarskjold paused at Hankow to meet, of all people, his nephew Peder Hammarskjold, chargé d'affaires at the Swedish embassy to Red China.* He arrived in the Chinese capital in sub-zero weather...
Jawaharlal Nehru last week accepted new tokens of concord from Red China: two spotted deer, a couple of long-necked cranes, and 100 fat goldfish swimming in bowls. Nehru thanked Red China's beaming donor. Chargé d'Affaires Shen Chien, but took Shen aside later on to ask about another recent consignment from Peking. How does it happen, asked Nehru, that Indian Communists are now selling Peking-printed maps that show 57,000 square miles of India's Assam, neighboring Burma, and Nehru's own ancestral Kashmir as districts of "People's China...