Word: legatione
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Shrewd Bachia Sakao, chief of the Shinwaris, had not only seized Mogubala Hill, overlooking Kabul, but had diverted a stream which furnished hydro-electric power to light the city and work the radio. For several days the whole of Kabul-even the legation quarter-was under rebel fire. Eventually the...
But another surprise awaited me in Tun-huang. In the course of my travels through Chinese Turkestan. I had heard reports about a great find of manuscripts which had been made a few years earlier in one of the caves. When I was at Noumchi, the provincial capital, I had...
The citizens of France were reminded that the State presents a superb set of Sevres china to every foreign Legation and Embassy in Paris. Furthermore, when a piece from one of these "diplomatic sets" breaks, the fragments are exchangeable without charge for a new and costly Sevres platter, plate, vase...
The operation in question was successfully performed by the only American dentist in Yugoslavia, Dr. George E. Reeves of Chicago, who does all the dental work for the American Legation as well as for the members of the local American and British colonies.
Dinner-often with Dr. Stresemann. But he seldom goes on to the theatre and almost never to the night clubs. However, there is a young secretary of the British legation, or a clever attache of the Turkish; and there is really no reason why the wife of the great Foreign...