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Former Secretary of Legation of Rumania Charlottesville, Va.
"So Seriously Compromised." The notorious Major Elias Belmonte Pabon, former Bolivian attache at the legation in Berlin, was an intimate collaborator with the Sicherheitsdienst (a combination intelligence, espionage and sabotage service) officials and received an annual greasing of 20,000 Reichsmarks from the German Foreign Office. The conspiracy, in which...
After dinner and the twanging of guitars the group trooped across the street to the imposing Mexican Legation, gleaming in white cement. Upstairs, on 60 cots neatly placed in the plushy conference rooms, they drew off their boots, slept and waited for news-news of going home. Downstairs the Mexican...
The first Germans to reach Prague carried a warrant for Gedye's arrest on a charge of "treason" (for helping Austrian refugees to flee). For ten days he hid in the attic of the British Legation until he could escape across the Polish border. Once away, Gedye was sent...
¶ From 1830 to 1930 Ecuador had 13 constitutions and 30-odd rulers, most of whom had to be removed from office by force. Reader Páez, Ecuador's President from 1935 to 1937, suspended the Constitution and ruled by decree for more than a year, suppressed several...