Word: legatione
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The story is told of his father's being suddenly ousted from the Italian Legation at Peking by a new Government at Rome because his policies did not please the new Administration. De Martino papa, forced to earn his living in the Orient, where he had had long experience, did...
Coming from so long a line of diplomats, small is the wonder that Signor de Martino is able. He was born just over 56 years ago, was sent to school in England as a small boy, learned the English language perfectly and still speaks it without a trace of foreign...
One bright summer morn, a crowd collected at the railway station of Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina. Upon the platform was the Minister of War, General Justo, surrounded by many Cabinet members, Army officers, other dignitaries, including Señor Honorio Pueyrredon, Argentine Ambassador to the U. S. and a...
¶The President's only Christmas clemency was a commutation of the sentence of one man, John Rohrer, sentenced for life for having shot a Chinese policeman while on duty as a legation guard at Shanghai. The sentence was reduced to 20 years. Rohrer had served nine, and was...
Meantime, the Albanian Legation at Rome said tersely: "Such news is groundless. Perfect tranquillity prevails throughout Albania."