Word: consular
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...news that also had prospects of peril. England and the U.S., allies in defense of a common way of life, seemed to be heading down diverging roads in Asia; the Chinese Communists, after a leisurely four days, had accepted Britain's recognition; by harshly treating its consular officials, they had made sure of U.S. hostility. To compound these complications, the Russians reached across Communist China last week to extend official recognition to the Communist rebels of Ho Chi Minh in French Indo-China...
...inability of students to get out of China since the Communist triumphs there, the enrollment of Chinese students this year is about 40 below normal. Now that American consular officials are leaving China, this figure will drop off move, since it will be impossible for students to obtain visas...
...occupations of these TIME Perpetuals include lawyers (unsurprisingly, the largest group) bankers, educators, clergymen (including Cardinal Spellman), consular officials, members of the armed forces, a farmer, a retired blueberry grower, a clock maker, college professors, doctors, engineers, a textile manufacturer, a lithographer, a building contractor, a housewife-concert pianist...
...been used as a barracks since 1947, and as diplomatic quarters it was protected by treaty. All his protests were returned, unacknowledged, and looking as though they had been opened and read. Then Washington warned Peking that the U.S. would answer seizure of its consulate by removing all U.S. consular officials from China. Again no response...
...destroyed some of his codes and dispatches, moved the rest without interference into his residence next door. In Washington, the Department of State signaled for the orderly closing down of consulates in Peking, Tientsin, Shanghai, Tsingtao and Nanking. Nobody was sure when or how the 135 members of the consular families would be granted exit permits. For the first time in 105 years, the U.S. would shortly be without listening posts in China...