Word: consulate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moscow managed to sound almost abused in answering the announcement that Jacob Lomakin, Soviet consul general in New York, was being ejected by the U.S. It rejected the State Department's accusations on the grounds that they were "unfounded and contrary to fact." The Soviet note blandly explained: "Since Kasenkina is in a hospital virtually under prison conditions ... statements described to her cannot be considered as deserving any confidence...
Russia had had big consular staffs in the U.S. (40 in New York, 13 in San Francisco), and her representatives had been allowed complete freedom. But U.S. Consul Scott Lyon had a staff of only two in Vladivostok. Soviet officials trained floodlights on the consulate at night, refused to let the U.S. officials travel. The U.S. Office of Foreign Service referred to Vladivostok as the "end of the line" and, regarding the job's conditions as comparable in strain to the loneliness and frustration on a lightship, changed the consulate's staff every six months to be sure...
...from a Moscow technical school as a "management engineer," had written articles on Marxist economy, and taken a course on how to become a foreign correspondent. In 1939, when he was 35, Jake was sent to New York as a Tass correspondent. Two years later he was made vice consul in New York City, and a year later, consul general in San Francisco...
Meanwhile he had also become consul general in New York City, a job second in importance only to that of ambassador. Jacob had certainly made good. In fact, there was no telling where he might have gone if Oksana Stepanovna Kasenkina, the schoolteacher, had not jumped out of the third-floor window of his consulate...
...Gross Violation." The State Department note rejected three separate Soviet government complaints, which were based, said the note, on misinformation supplied by Jake. "Consul General Lomakin's conduct constitutes an abuse of the prerogatives of his position and a gross violation [of diplomatic standards] ... It is requested that he leave the United States...