A great event in ecclesiastical history was the arrival of a papal legation in 787, the first since the conversion.
After her spell in Tallinn she had been posted in 1928 to the American legation in Riga, the capital of Latvia (where her boss was George Kennan, who was to become famous diplomatically for advocating the "containment" of the Soviet Union, which became the basis of American policy during the cold war).
Instead, as first secretary at the Swedish Legation in Budapest in the summer of 1944, Wallenberg acted.
No. 3 A battalion of 500 men of the 15th U.S. Infantry arrive in the compound of the American legation, in Peking, on the morning of March 3d.
Ms Foreman records some telling vignettes: Henry Adams's description of John Bright, greatest of Liberal parliamentary orators, shaking an opponent as a mastiff might shake a terrier, and sour Benjamin Moran, of the Union legation in London, exposing the insincerity of the Adams family's proclaimed indifference to London society.
Destierro (1930; "Exile"), written shortly after he became secretary to the Mexican legation in Madrid, reflected the poet's attempt, often expressed in complex surrealist imagery, to rebel against a mechanized, hostile, and unfamiliar environment.
On 14 October, the Italian Legation in Peking successfully radioed the ship off the coast of China, one of the first long-range radio transmissions to a ship.
Many of these stories feature the small group of Horse Marines stationed at the American Legation in Peiping who patrolled the city streets and the surrounding Chinese countryside.
When Wallenberg reached the Swedish legation in Budapest in July 1944, the campaign against the Jews of Hungary had already been underway for several months.
