Word: consular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco, Federal men haled Newsman Frederick Vincent ("Wiggy") Williams, Publisher David Warren Ryder into court. In Lake Geneva, Wis., they found sleek Ralph Townsend, onetime U.S. consular aide in China, a contributor to Scribner's Commentator, mouthpiece-until Pearl Harbor-of rabid isolationists in the U.S. (TIME, Nov. 17). The three were accused of writing and distributing Japanese propaganda without registering as Jap agents...
Even twenty nations can do a good deed for the cause of the democracies by axing relations with the Axis. Each Nazi diplomatic and consular post in this hemisphere is a nest of intrigue and a center of information, and tossing out all their staffs would deprive Germany of one of its chief military and ideological weapons. Enemy agents would have less chance to spy on the defenses of the Americas, and the sources of funds and propaganda which have supported the many, cells of fifth columnism in south America would be virtually wiped...
Japanese Embassy and consular staffs in the U.S. have been corralled at the Homestead in Hot Springs, Va., the South's No. 2 watering place. But the Italian Embassy staff is still in Washington. It has not been moved because U.S. Embassy men are still in Rome...
...Japanese in the Hawaiian Islands (more than one-third of the population), Tokyo had plenty of talent, as it has among the 29,000 in the Philippines. Top civilian in the Hawaiian fifth column was the Japanese Consul General. His immediate instrument was the consular police...
...chief job of the consular police was organization of the Ronin, cellular organizations of youths educated in U.S. schools and preserved in their devotion to the Mikado by classes in Japanese schools. For these the Consul General chose many of the teachers, and they were probably spies too. Both the consular police and the Ronin were financed by the Consul General...