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Page 153
... wish to show me your passport and I will not insist . You are not under the impression that we leave the statements of our agents without corroboration or that we are so foolish as not to keep track of their movements ? Even the best of ...
... wish to show me your passport and I will not insist . You are not under the impression that we leave the statements of our agents without corroboration or that we are so foolish as not to keep track of their movements ? Even the best of ...
Page 198
... wish the ambassadors to suffer the affront of discovering that an obscure agent had been sent to work at cross - purposes with them . On the other hand it was thought just as well to have a representative in the opposite camp , who in ...
... wish the ambassadors to suffer the affront of discovering that an obscure agent had been sent to work at cross - purposes with them . On the other hand it was thought just as well to have a representative in the opposite camp , who in ...
Page 200
... wish any official attentions to attract notice to him . But when on the afternoon of the same day he made his call at the American Embassy he discovered why Sir Herbert Witherspoon had shown him so much coldness . The American ...
... wish any official attentions to attract notice to him . But when on the afternoon of the same day he made his call at the American Embassy he discovered why Sir Herbert Witherspoon had shown him so much coldness . The American ...
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