Word: consular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Defense Attorney Sahap Gursel eloquently pleaded for dismissal of the case. His grounds: the nature of the arrests violated the NATO status-of-forces agreement, which specifies that offenders shall be confronted with accusing witnesses. have the right to get in touch with their consular officials, and be brought to speedy trial...
Dublin-born Roger Casement, knighted in 1911 for services to His Majesty's consular service, had been caught after being put ashore on a wild stretch of the Irish coast by a German U-boat on Good Friday, 1916, when an Irish rebellion was in the making. What seemed to the British government a clear case of treason was to many an Irishman patriotism...
...Arabs. Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah passed through; Lebanon's new Premier Rashid Karami dropped in to mend fences; and East Germany's Otto Grotewohl made a formal call on Nasser. Afterwards Grotewohl announced that the two countries, while not generally recognizing one another, would establish "consular relations." West Germany, true to its insistence that it will break off relations with any nation that recognizes Communist East Germany, sent its ambassador over to ask Nasser what was going on. Nasser's aides denied that the boss had promised East Germany anything of the kind...
...Jardine, who had been vastly impressed by the scholarship of earnest, bespectacled Milton Eisenhower. Milton accepted Jardine's offer-but wound up with another job. A Republican Party fieldworker came to Kansas State to help Milton organize a campus political club, casually suggested that Milton apply for the consular service. Milton did; soon came a telegram offering him a consular post in Edinburgh. Milton uneasily approached Jardine for an honorable exit route from the faculty register. "Well," said President Jardine with a twinkle, "that's the sort of thing you have to figure out for yourself...
...with a foot in the door, the Russians next asked for a trade pact and consular agreement. Again under political pressure at home, Adenauer sent his bargainers back to the table. Last week in Moscow, after nine months of sparring, the Soviets and West Germans announced a new agreement. Once again the Soviets appeared to have got more than they gave...