Word: consulate
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Quipped a parliamentary wag about Sir Thomas Inskip's appointment in 1936 as Defense Minister: "There has been no similar appointment since the Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a Consul." Winston Churchill remarked that Sir Thomas was perfectly right in saying that the Army was being mechanized- "in the sense that its horses are being taken away from it." Said Sir Thomas: "Sometimes I do not feel very well equipped for my office." He held it three years. Just after the British troops sailed for Norway without proper weapons or supplies, Minister of Supply Leslie Burgin was photographed...
...country scuttled two official Nazis, bound for Japan: Dr. Friedrich Ried, assistant German consul in New York City, subject of State Department inquiry, and Dr. Gerhardt Alois Westrick, German trade counselor to the U. S., indignant over being made an object of suspicion...
...Grande do Sul went Richard Paulig, an assistant in the German Consulate in Manhattan, and Dr. Ried went north to fill Paulig's shoes. Day after he had settled himself at work, the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League rushed a note to the State Department reviewing the Ried record. Three days later a "thank you" letter came back explaining that no information had yet been received as to Ried's U. S. duties. There the matter lay until last week when the Ried cries grew louder as the New York Post's Daniel Lang tracked him down...
...that political campaign trucks resound with live musicians, not recordings. When a giant panda was to be welcomed by a troop of Chinese Boy Scout buglers, Petrillo demanded that eight union men be hired as well. Italian as were his sympathies, he hit the ceiling when the Italian Consul arranged for amateurs to play at an Italian celebration...
Personally piloting a heavy bomber last week on "an official mission," accompanied by the Consul General of Tripoli, the editor of Il Corriere Padano (Balbo's newspaper), a Balbo nephew and a brother-in-law, Marshal Balbo was suddenly attacked by machine-gun fire over Tobruch, Italy's coastal base near the Libya-Egypt border. High in the bright blue African sky his crew of three returned the fire. Holes were sewn down the fuselage of their ship and it caught fire. Down it slid, trailing black oil smoke. It crashed, killing all occupants including the 44-year...