Word: consular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manuel Quezon, who was not consulted about Mr. McNutt's appointment last February (TIME. March 1). and who has made no secret of his irritation with U. S. "interference" in the Commonwealth's administration, has not discouraged various foreign consular officials at Manila-most of them semi-professional-from clearing diplomatic affairs through his Malancañan Palace. Last fortnight Commissioner McNutt advised these gentlemen that the U. S. was still responsible for the Philippines' foreign relations, that all communication with the Commonwealth should be routed via his office. Particularly irked was he that The Netherlands vice...
While the consuls were busy cabling home for instructions, Commissioner McNutt sent another tornado of excitement blowing through the bars at the Army & Navy and Elks Clubs (Manila's best) by transmitting a second message to the consulates. At future consular dinners let the first toast be drunk to the head of the host's State. Let the second salute Franklin D. Roosevelt, the third his emissary in the Philippines, Paul V. McNutt. The fourth salute should honor President Quezon. The irregular practice of toasting Senor Quezon before Mr. McNutt would have to stop...
...perfect composure." Less calm was Berlin's U. S. Consul Raymond H. Geist who had gone to great pains to intercede for Prisoner Hirsch on the grounds that, though his family lives in Czechoslovakia, he is a U. S. citizen because his grandfather was. This week U. S. consular officials in Berlin pleaded fervently that Hirsch was under age when he committed the crime, was influenced by others. Because Hirsch has made a full confession they admitted that only "the intervention of Adolf Hitler or some other high official" could save...
Capitulations, the sharpest thorn in Egypt's flesh, are partly fiscal, partly juridical. Foreigners in Egypt are not forced to pay taxes to the Egyptian Government; foreigners involved in criminal cases go before their own consular courts, while civil cases go before mixed courts on which foreign representatives sit. Specially oppressive to Egypt are the fiscal capitulations because more than $12,000,000,000 of foreign money is invested in that country, and owing to tax immunities the Egyptian Government is deprived of what it considered a large legitimate income. The U. S. has nearly $15,000,000 invested...
Agitated telephone calls between London and British diplomatic agents in Saint-Jean-de-Luz were not made clearer by the fact that the captains of three of the stymied British freighters were named Jones. A consular clerk speeded matters considerably by naming them after their respective cargoes: Potato Jones, Ham & Egg Jones, Corn Cob Jones. Bravest of the lot, because he is part owner of his ship, was Captain David (Potato) Jones of the Marie Llewellyn. Attempting to run the blockade, he nearly ran down the British destroyer Brazen, was shepherded back to port where his cargo began to spoil...