Word: consular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army soldiers; of Chinese Communist soldiers from Shantung and Hopeh boasting of Japanese rifles, Japanese ammunition lifted from the stockpiles while the Russian guards conveniently looked the other way. Russians are stripping factories of their best machinery and generally throwing their weight around. A fortnight ago a French consular agent and a young American O.S.S. officer were bounced out of Mukden - for no other reason than that the Russians did not want them around. "Our neighbors," murmured a Peiping man, "do not appear to be governed by the established rules of civility...
Died. Boake Carter, 46, baleful-voiced, tendentious radioracle; of a heart attack; in Hollywood. Born in Baku, Russia (his parents were a British consular couple). Carter got his radio start in 1930 by covering a local rugby match (no other Philadelphia newsman understood the game). Listeners either loved or loathed his clipped, British-toned accent, his "cheerio" signature, his hyped-up, opinionated presentation of the news...
...Netherlands went solemn Stanley Hornbeck, 61, onetime chief of the State Department's Far Eastern division; to Bolivia, Walter Thurston, 48, of Colorado; to Colombia, John Cooper Wiley, U.S. Minister to Latvia and Estonia until 1941; to El Salvador, John F. Simmons, 52, who began as a U.S. consular clerk...
Raissa Irene Berkman Browder, Russian-born wife of U.S.-born Communist Earl Browder, finally became a legitimate alien immigrant eligible for U.S. citizenship, thus ending a four-year tug of technicalities over her illegal entry from Canada in 1933. The benevolent cooperation of immigration and consular officials ended her long dispute over her deportation (never enforced) by allowing her to re-enter the U.S. from Canada with a legally stamped visa...
...Expulsion of all Nazi agents and consular officials from Tangiers...