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The big, buff brick Greek legation on Washington's Massachusetts Avenue was quiet last week; on sunny mornings a Negro yardman hosed down the sidewalks; a white-coated houseman swung open the door to visitors in grand unconcern. Inside, white-haired, friendly little Minister Cimon P. Diamantopoulos gravely stated...
The people cheered when they heard what the Generalissimo, Alexander Papagos, had said: "We will write new, glorious pages in our history, and do not doubt that we will win our cause." The people were gay when they read on walls the slogans of Premier John Metaxas: "Only pessimistic peoples...
The Britons felt pity, too-for nice old Sir Reginald Hervey Hoare, Britain's Minister. A distant cousin of Sir Samuel Hoare, he used to be quite a figure of a man-tall, with a handsome white-haired head, careless in dress and indolent of speech, kindly, dry, hospitable...
There was little for Britons to do but evacuate. One of the young Legation men summed up many British defeats when he said: "If this turns out to be a virtual occupation, it would be hardly decent for us to stay on."
Wary of Argentine red tape, fearing dearth of transportation to Germany might keep him in prison until war's end, Nazi Arnold appealed the extradition order Uruguay had granted, gained a 20-day reprieve. Last week, with a new passport obligingly issued by the German Legation in Montevideo, he...