Word: consulate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Consul General Angus Ward hurried from a Communist people's court in Mukden, Manchuria last week to telephone the news to the nearest American diplomat, 400 miles away in Peiping. Ward and four members of his consulate staff had been freed from a Communist jail and were to be deported from Red China...
...Consul in Peiping relayed the report to Washington. From Ward's skimpy recapitulation and the splutterings of the Communist Chinese radio, the State Department pieced together the humiliating story. After holding the U.S. consulate members incommunicado for nearly a month (TIME, Nov. 21), the Communists had staged a hasty "trial," and convicted Ward and his aides of "brutally assaulting" a Chinese servant. The Reds' kangaroo court sentenced the five to jail for three to six months, imposed a stiff fine, then suspended the sentences and ordered them deported...
Shortly after the first World War, Dr. Walter Johnstone Williams, dentist and British consul in Papeete, Tahiti, acquired the atoll of Tetiaroa . . . Dr. Williams was the only dentist in Papeete for years, and he did quite a business-considering the Polynesians' love for "glitter-work" in their mouths . The royal Pomare family fell in debt to Dr. Williams for gold fillings . . . so they gave him Tetiaroa to clear up the bill...
From Communist Manchuria last week, the U.S. received a thin piece of news: U.S. Consul General Angus Ward was still alive. The Chinese Communists who held him prisoner had permitted him to send out a request for food, clothing and reading matter...
Current news reports would indicate that Russia may have inspired the Chinese Communist arrest of our Mukden Consul, Mr. Angus Ward, which of course makes any recognition of the Poking regime by us at the moment impossible. To those Chinese Communists who want to have continued relations with the United States, this arrest may have seemed like a smart form of pressure; but of course we will never yield to it. For the Russians, it is a convenient way of keeping China out of contact with us. This Russian angle should be carefully noted...