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Six hours after the newest war was declared, two frantic Bulgarian officials banged on the door of Russia's Sofia legation. They told the sleepy chargé d'affaires that Bulgaria wanted an armistice.
CARLOS PERDOMO Ex-Secretary of the Honduras Legation in Washington
Papen moved out of the Czechoslovak legation where he had lived for four years, went home. Within minutes his servants were knocking at other embassy doors, hunting jobs, and explaining that they would never act as German spies. Also making the rounds was Czech Representative Milos Hanak, explaining that now...
" 'Yes. I plan to leave with the Legation staff next week. Do you think I'll be safe?'
Namik Kemal's son, Mehmed Rifat, a powerful politician, president of the Senate, and for a time Minister of Finance, sent his son Numan to a French lycée, then to Lausanne to study law. World War I was under way when Numan became third secretary of the...