Word: legatione
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>In Bucharest the German Legation entertained Foreign Minister Grigore Gafencu and other prominent Rumanians with a newsreel of the conquest of Norway, a sequel to the Nazis' film of the blasting of Poland plugged so diligently around the neutral circuit this winter. Two days earlier the Government had nipped...
These soothing words Sweden accepted with wry docility. Stockholm newspapers interpreted them as a polite way of saying that Sweden had entered "the German sphere of interest." Next day Stockholm police walked into the British Legation and seized a propaganda weekly called News From Great Britain which had been issued...
> "Expert for the press" in the German Legation in Stockholm is a Dr. Grassmann, who is often seen going from newspaper to newspaper with material. If an article is refused, the newspaper can expect the immediate cancellation of advertisements by German-owned firms and their Swedish branches. Germany's...
Hungary. Searchlights swept the skies of Budapest and air-raid protection squads in steel helmets patrolled the streets. The French Legation hastily removed important files to Belgrade and a speedy truck stood ready in the courtyard of the British Legation for a quick trip to the frontier. Believing that a...
For nine years Luxembourg's best friend-in-residence has been the U. S. Chargé d'Affaires, George Platt Waller, who bestows on the dynasties of Central Europe that tender, familiar worship that the true Southern aristocrat can give only to royal families and his own. Visiting...