Word: legatione
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Direct Wires. All non-diplomatic Axis technicians and tourists were expelled by Zahir Shah's government just before the Japanese attack in the Pacific. But diplomats still have direct wires to Berlin, Rome and Tokyo which hum with valuable information from India. The Italian legation arranged the flight from...
From the German legation a stream of gold has found its way to rebellious border tribes. From German radio stations comes a daily prod at old battle sores, a yammering about high food prices in Kabul, British bumbles, the shortage of wartime supplies. The Afghan government is promised "the lost...
Netherlands Minister Royal Netherlands Legation Washington, D.C.
On second request, however, the Swiss, an ingenious people who make watches, thought up a "semiofficial" way to deliver the note. An attaché of the Swiss Foreign Office at Berne, they suggested, might pay a visit to a secretary of the Legation of Hungary (or Rumania or Bulgaria) and...
Tens of thousands of Arab workmen were delighted by the good wages. But they remained skeptical about Britain's ability to stop the Nazis. Axis propaganda kept telling them that the British would let them down, whereas the Axis would make their dreams of a united Arabia come true...