Word: consulate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blake's conversion to Communism ostensibly occurred while he was a prisoner in North Korea from 1950 to 1953. As British vice consul in Seoul, he rated harsh treatment from his Communist captors, as well as a few sporadic attempts at brainwashing. A fellow prisoner, British Journalist Philip Deane, finds the conversion theory "ludicrous." Says he: "Blake was never kept away from his fellow prisoners for more than a few hours"-too short a time for effective brainwashing. As to a philosophical decision by Blake that Communism was morally superior, Deane observes: "All we knew at the hands...
...party took place at the British consul general's house in Boston. Moving through the reception, Jacqueline Kennedy welcomed the first ten British graduate students awarded scholarships by Britain's Kennedy Memorial Fund, established after the President's death to send Britons to the U.S. for research and travel. Never far from the side of her brothers-in-law Bobby and Teddy, Jackie said little, although she was especially pleased to see Lord Harlech, formerly Sir David Ormsby Gore, the British Ambassador to the U.S. during the Kennedy Administration. After the party, Jackie invited the students...
...General Bedell Smith's staff in North Africa, Colonel Briggs helped arrange the Casablanca conference. She was lent to the State Department for a London assignment after the war, went on to Moscow as part of Ambassador Bedell Smith's staff, and in 1948 was appointed vice consul in Belgrade. After sending her to school for four years to become a Russian specialist, the Army put her in the Pentagon as chief of its Eastern European branch of intelligence; in 1961 she was sent to France as chief of the Armed Forces Soviet intelligence section...
...Reischauer was U. (for Ural)* Alexis Johnson, 57, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and him self an old Asia hand. Also fluent in Japanese, Kansas-born Johnson started his career as an embassy language officer in Tokyo in 1935; on Pearl Harbor Day, as a vice consul in Japanese-controlled Manchuria, he was interned. Exchanged in 1942, he later joined General Douglas MacArthur's Tokyo staff. More recently, Johnson was deputy ambassador in Saigon before returning to Washington last year...
Sighed the U.S. vice consul in charge: "There's simply nothing we can do on French holidays...