Word: consulate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sponsored by the Radcliffe Graduate Chapter, Esther Herlitz, consul of Israel in New York, and Fayez Sayegh, deputy director of the Arab States Delegation to the U.N., spoke to a packed audience in the Alumnae Lecture Room at Radcliffe...
Esther Herlitz, Consul of Israel in New York, and Fayez Sayegh, Deputy Director of the Arab States Delegation to the U.N., will speak Sunday in a panel discussion of "The Middle East, Today and Tomorrow," sponsored by the Radcliffe Alumnae Association...
...final, unique chapter in Ward's diplomatic education came in November 1948, when the Chinese Communists captured the Manchurian city of Mukden, where he was consul general. For seven months Ward was kept under house arrest, and Washington heard nothing from him. The State Department, determined at that point not to be beastly to the Chinese Reds, made no protest. Even when Ward and four of his aides were jailed on trumped-up charges (of having beaten up a former Chinese employee of the consulate), it was only after the Scripps-Howard newspapers launched a campaign against passive...
...semi-freezing solitary confinement, and throughout had stubbornly refused to give the Reds a "confession." Ironically enough, this very nearly ruined his career. Irritated by the controversial publicity he had received, Foreign Service brass was inclined to regard Ward as a nuisance, and in September 1950 he was named consul general in Nairobi, a job that made little use of his peculiar qualifications and background...
...photographers to pose with an English child in Hampton Court, Malenkov, with hundreds of children to pick from, unhappily seized on six-year-old Thomas Klouda and his brother Peter, aged three, and plunked them on his knees. The boys happened to be the sons of former Czechoslovakian Consul-General Antonin Klouda, who fled Prague after the Communist coup. "Frankly, my first thought," said father Klouda, "was how easy it would be to assassinate...