Word: legatione
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Mataguchi was commander of the Japanese legation guard at Peiping when Stilwell was U.S. military attache there. Joe Stilwell pressed hard on him now, hoped he would not slip out. Even if he did, Vinegar Joe had scored a real victory.
"Helsinki is a better-fed, better-dressed, more normal-looking wartime capital than I expected to find it. Bomb damage from three major Russian raids in February is not nearly so noticeable as in Liverpool, for example. Many houses have unbroken windows and I have seen only three completely destroyed...
Caught in Austria by World War I, he unwillingly served in the Austro-Hungarian infantry, was nearly sentenced to death for "political unreliability." When the Old Man became the head of the state, Jan's spirit of adventure had to be channeled into more representative endeavors. He worked in...
Dr. Crow's loud and lethal gadgets went into action again last week when some 100 German planes whisked over London sowing incendiary bombs, the worst of which landed in fashionable residential districts. Two famous squares were well scorched, an embassy and a legation partly burned out. London'...
Washington: Axis agents, working through the German legation and the Japanese consulate in Dublin, "enjoy almost unrestricted opportunity" for spying on Allied troop movements in Britain.