Military attaché

There are State Department.

We still have our Defense Attaché's Office, people who come from the Pentagon.

This is a typical mix of an embassy makeup.

But for a country of that size and consequence, it's an extremely limited one.

That felt very differentiated.

So we reached out to the Defense Attaché at the Ukrainian embassy, and we started going through our network to try and figure out what was going on there, and then ultimately we ended up discovering this company called U-Force.

So in any event, we ended up going out there, And, uh, end up hearing really wonderful things about the company and, and get to meet the team, get to go to manufacturing sites, uh, spoke with a lot of end users.

Uh, it was really remarkable experience.

Introductory.

My father and mother, Lord and Lady Yukeng, and family, together with our suite, consisting of the First Secretary, Second Secretary, Naval and Military Attachés, Chancellors, their families, servants, etc., all together fifty-five people, arrived in Shanghai on January 2, 1903, on the SS Annam from Paris, where for four years my father had been Chinese Minister.

Our arrival was anything but pleasant, as the rain came down in torrents, and we had the greatest difficulty getting our numerous retinue landed and safely housed, not to mention the tons of baggage that had to be looked after.

We had found from previous experience that none of our Legation people or servants could be depended upon to do anything when traveling, in consequence of which the entire charge devolved upon my mother, who was without doubt the genius of the party in arranging matters and straightening out difficulties.

Because

I had been trying to work through all the Saab representatives, and I'd go over to the Swedish embassy, which is right over in Georgetown, D.C., And I talked to the Air Attaché and everybody knew about the mission.

And they'd always say, oh, I can get you the pilots to fly the airplane and all that stuff.

But then they'd come back from Sweden and they'd say, I couldn't find anything out because it was classified.

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Manila and the Philippines by Major A. Falkner von Sonnenburg, Imperial German Army, late Military Attache at Manila.

After Admiral Dewey's splendid victory at Cavite, the neutral powers sent their ships as quickly as possible to Manila Bay.

It was expected that the quiet waters of the capital of the Philippines would become, in the near future, the scene of great military and naval activity, and that many still doubtful questions in modern warfare would there find a practical answer.