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The U.S. State Department, which has devoted a lot of thought to Iceland lately, showed instant signs of appreciation. The State Department announced that a new vice consul was being dispatched to represent the U.S. in Reykjavik. He was tall, blond, coolheaded, young (33) Career Diplomat Henry Bartlett Wells, known...
Envoy. The man who made the Greenland deal possible was Henrik de Kauffmann, 52. When the Nazis seized Denmark last year, Minister de Kauffmann sat tight in the modest little Danish Legation on Washington's Massachusetts Avenue. Slight, dapper, greying and grave-faced, he let his staff know that...
Sealed in her Washington bedroom by a paint-stopped lock, while her politically prognosticative husband partied at the Greek legation, blonde, handsome Mrs. Emil Hurja shouted and pounded until "the handsomest policemen you ever saw" arrived and freed her.
Just before Yugoslavia squirmed out of the Nazi net, a series of short-wave broadcasts out of Boston took that country by the ears. In cafes, hotels, libraries and homes, Yugoslavs rallied round loudspeakers several times daily to listen to a call to arms that rocketed from a mike 4...
The People. Soon after daybreak Correspondent Brock got a telephone call through to the British Legation. "Who's here?" said a jubilant voice. "Bloody well everybody. We're having champagne. Come on." But Ray Brock had more to do that morning. In the streets he was caught up...