Word: consulate
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...reporter for Britain's Manchester Guardian tells the story of an overcoat which was stolen from a U.S. vice consul in Pusan and which the local authorities were anxious to recover. A few days after the theft, Pusan's chief of police personally reported to the coat's owner. "All is well," said the chief, "as I am currently torturing two suspects...
British Physicist Klaus Fuchs. The FBI said Rosenberg had been an important cog in the machinery, working directly under Anatoli Yakovlev, Soviet vice consul in New York. An electrical engineer (C.C.N.Y., class of '39), Rosenberg had been an inspector for the War Department's Signal Service until early 1945, when he was fired for Communist affiliations. He broke off all open contacts with the party, quit subscribing to the Daily Worker and set up as the owner of a small, non-union machine shop in Manhattan. But the FBI kept its many eyes...
Close Call. Consider the U.S. position on Formosa after Truman's statement: the senior U.S. representative was Consul General and Chargé d'Affaires Robert Strong, a State Department career man of modest reputation. The senior military representative was an Army lieutenant colonel assisted by a staff of three other officers and barely enough enlisted men to answer phones, drive staff cars. Not one of the military men had the rank or authority to provide the liaison so urgently required with the U.S. Seventh Fleet...
...Amtorg Trading Corp. employee named Semen M. Semenov was Gold's first boss; after being handed the RDX sample, he told the Philadelphian to forget Slack for "a very important assignment"-getting atomic information from Fuchs. From then on, Gold had reported to Anatoli Antonovich Yakovlev, Soviet vice consul in New York...
Henri Beyle, who used the nom de plume of Stendhal, wrote Lucien Leuwen between 1834 and 1836, while he was French consul (for the regime of King Louis Philippe) at Civitavecchia, Italy. Since the novel is, in parts, a Louis-Philippie and a mock of constitutional monarchy ("a halt in the mud"), it could not safely be published while the author was "eating off the Budget." Stendhal therefore was in no hurry to get on with it, and died before he finished the job. First published as a whole in 1894, five decades after Stendhal's death. Lucien...