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| | TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Envoy Extraordinary -- Mar. 27, 1944 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | In a latched compartment of the wagons-lits rode an elderly intriguer, Prince Barbu Stirbey of Rumania, and his elegant daughter, Princess Elise, wife of a British major. |
 | | When control officers at the Levantine frontier saw the special British laissez-passer, they moved on quickly to the next compartment. |
 | | Chained to Prince Stirbey's wrist as he slept that night was a small, red dispatch case containing, so it was said, Rumania's terms for quitting the war. |
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