1. During the riot the mob started stoning the British embassy. 2. Nevertheless the British embassy did not believe that Britain was being written off as a negligible force, nor had the common Anglo-Saxon heritage been totally forgotten. 3. The British embassy in Washington, however, predicted serious damage to Anglo-American relations if the British were too critical or tried to go their own way. 4. This was a very different message from that which the British embassy in Washington had been delivering since August. 5. THREE British embassies are to open in the former Soviet Union and former Czechoslovakia, the Foreign Secretary, Douglas Hurd, announced last night. 6. Americans, grateful for that support, have phoned British embassies and sent them letters in thanks. 7. At the former British embassy, white Land Cruisers filled with young, clean-shaven men arrive in regular convoys. 8. A spy who penetrated the British embassy in Turkey was feeding the Nazis details about the planned landing at Normandy. 9. A spokesman for the British embassy in Kabul, Paul Sykes, said no agreement had been reached, but that negotiations were progressing well. 10. Across Kuwait, special security units have begun to man roadblocks and have taken up new positions outside the U.S. and British embassies. |