Malcolm Templeton, who was the Russia desk officer when Costello was in Wellington, nearly 40 years later wrote Top Hats are not being Taken: a Short History of the New Zealand
Legation in Moscow 1944-1950 (1988) but in it recalls little of Costello during his time in Wellington, though his memory had recovered some more by September 2008, when reviewing James McNeish's The Sixth Man for this journal.
The embassy, which has jurisdiction over Tunisia, has advised that Filipinos contact the Interim
Legation and the Philippine Consulate in Tunis through +216 50 926 251 in case of any emergency./ac
In June, a Korean employee of the French
legation was caught peeking over the wall into the women's chambers of a nobleman's estate.
Caption: ABOVE: A few of the members of the Canadian Women's Army Corps that worked at the Canadian
Legation Annex in Washington.
The second ceremony was performed at the Minister's residence (we were still a
Legation) by a military chaplain flown in from Salzburg.
The incident was set off by the publication February 8, 1936, in The New York Mirror, a long since defunct daily, of an article describing the Shah as "formerly employed in the stables of the British
Legation in Teheran."
Angstadt, China Horse Marine, and the American
Legation in Peiping, China from 1934 to 1937.
Il est un fait souligne par la
Legation roumaine a Paris a l'occasion de la guerre anglo-boer: les evenements en Afrique du Sud ont cause "des actions reflexes avec des repercussions dans les approches qui peuvent etre realisees entre les Grandes Puissances" (11).
diplomatic property in the world, the American
Legation in Tangier, the only building outside of the U.S.
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The architecture of embassies and
legation buildings says much about the character and power of the nations that have erected, or acquired them, as well as about the historical circumstances that gave rise to the need for a diplomatic presence.
Rivera Recio postulated that the first
legation of the Cardinal took place <<with the double mission of shoring up the peace [between the kingdoms] and dissolving the marriage of the king of Leon>> (9).
Eventually, the threat to the
legations led to a foreign assault on the Dagu Forts protecting the approach to Beijing, a "declaration of war" against the attacking powers by the Empress Dowager Cixi, and finally the
legation siege and its relief, which is the focus of the book.
There is a plaque in the chancel to his son William Campbell Manley who was secretary of
Legation at Copenhagen in the mid 19th century.
