Word: consular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because constables at a place called Elkton, Md. had dared to snap handcuffs on the aristocratic wrists of Iran's Minister Plenipotentiary, the Great Ghaffar Khan Djalal, arrest him for speeding, all diplomatic and consular agents of Iran have been withdrawn from the U. S. (TIME, Dec. 9 et seq.). To Teheran went word last week that the end of insults was not yet. Though Iran's chargé d'affaires, Hossein Ghods, has already left the U. S. in the wake of his chief, the U. S. Customs was vulgar enough to suggest that Iran...
...than Comrade Litvinoff that the Litvinoff-to-Roosevelt pledges were nothing but a trap to catch recognition and that, recognition having been caught, they became scraps of paper. When the U. S. Congress ascertained the facts, it refused to appropriate the necessary $1,100,000 for U. S. Embassy & Consular buildings in the Soviet Union. Today Ambassador Bullitt, highly persona grata in Moscow, constitutes almost the sole friendly link between Moscow and Washington. Last week Comrade Litvinoff, obviously more worried than he cared to admit by the attention Mr. Howard had called to the Soviet-U. S. situation, bleated...
...last October, when Explorer William LaVarre said he believed the Georgia flyer alive, the Redfern rumors had grown to such proportions that the U. S. State Department ordered an investigation. The Consular Agent at Paramaribo, Netherlands Guiana, unearthed a Creole Catholic missionary named Melcherts, stationed at Drie Tabbetjes on the Tapanahoni River in the interior, who told the following story...
...officers and took refuge in Siberia across the Soviet border be disgorged by the Soviet Far East Army of Red Marshal Blucher. Finally the Russians became so incensed that on orders from Moscow all Soviet citizens in Manchukuo were urged to catch the next trains to Russia by Soviet consular officials who handed out railway tickets free to Reds who lacked money. On further orders from Moscow the Soviet Consulate General at Mukden was abolished, and the Consul General walked out, slamming the door. Since there is no Soviet Ambassador accredited to the Empire...
...Adolf Hitler has overruling power in all respects. As a one-man Jew's Supreme Court he can dispense such exceptional favors as permitting Soviet Ambassador Suritz to keep an apple-cheeked, 16-year-old scullery maid. Unprintable were the explosions of wrath in the Corps Diplomatique and consular services of foreign powers throughout Germany, but up to this week no Ambassador or Minister had been instructed to protest...