Word: legatione
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Despite the gorgeous capitalist disguise of Comrade Karakhan, he was an Ambassador without an Embassy. The Diplomatic Corps at Peking is composed entirely of Ministers, none of whom relish giving presence to a Bolshevik Ambassador, and they have done much to hinder the Chinese Government from handing over the old...
Jan Masaryk was formerly a Lieutenant in the Austrian Army. In 1919 he was appointed Chargé d'Affaires at the Czecho-Slovakian Legation in Washington, and in May of this year he was made Czecho-Slovakian Minister to the Court of St. James's.
2) By the fact that the Legation quarter is governed by the foreign representatives resident therein. The Chinese Government was technically not within its rights in making any promises to the Soviet Government without first obtaining the sanction of the foreign Ministers.
With the Chinese Government willing, but unable, to hand over the Legation, the Soviet Government anxious to take possession of the building and the Diplomats hostile to both parties, an obstacle was created proportionate to the size of the Great Wall.
Its author has recreated with absorbing skill the atmosphere in which she lived, an amazing, colorful figure whose beauty raised her from the most ignoble depths to be the model and inspiration of the immortal Romney's genius who called her his "Divine Lady," to be the Lady of...