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ARTHUR BLISS LANE Minister to Costa Rica American Legation San José, Costa Rica
Here are the facts: 1) There were seven pieces of small hand luggage (not 13). 2) I was forced to abandon the personal effects of my wife, three children and myself in Bulgaria with an infinitesimal chance of ever seeing them again or being recompensed by our Government as this...
>The prodigally democratic U.S. had very few real secrets left to keep when it went to war. Many, various and almost uncontrollable were the channels through which U.S. enemies could get vital wartime facts (insurance reports, sometimes to offices abroad, requiring detailed data on experimental aircraft, ships, etc.; Patent Office...
Then there were the Germans. There was Gauleiter Conradi who had the head of a later Antonine on a body paralyzed from the waist down. He seldom got out of bed, but he knew everything and was dreaded by all Germans from the German minister to the charwoman at the...
South Africa is a different story. Said a South African in the Washington Legation recently: "Do anything to gold at this time and you let loose a pestilence in South Africa." Almost 400,000 men, most of them natives, are directly engaged in producing gold from the bottomless Rand; and...