Word: consulates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the State Department abruptly sharpened its tone, told the Czech government to call home two of its own diplomats, the consul general in New York and a strangely authoritative embassy housekeeper in Washington...
...Mukden, after studiously ignoring him for about four months, Communist officials finally paid some attention to white-goateed Consul General Angus I. Ward, 56. The Reds arrested him and four members of his staff. The charge: beating up a discharged Chinese employee, one Chi Yu-heng, after he had demanded severance pay. The entire population of Mukden, the Communist radio reported, was demanding punishment for "this savage and brutal act perpetrated by American imperialists." Ward has not been allowed to communicate with Washington since his arrest...
...older brother Georges, a doctor in Manhattan, urged Raymond to join him. At 26, still wearing his captain's uniform (the only clothing he had), Loewy sailed for the U.S. with a total capital of $40. Aboard ship, his sketching so impressed Sir Harry Gloster Armstrong, then British consul general in New York, that he gave him a note of introduction to Publisher Conde Nast...
...enterprising contingent from the banks of the Charles wangled a free ride into Berlin on a U. S. military train. Once in the city, they found that the U. S. Consul General was a Harvard man, and were soon living in luxury at the Consulate. They were taken on guided tours of the city, and after a pleasant stay, they got a free flight back to Tri-zone in an empty air-lift transport. Another Harvard undergraduate with a flair for the lurid spent a weekend with the Salvador Dalis in Spain...
...John Bigelow (1817-1911), editor with William Cullen Bryant of the N.Y. Evening Post, Civil War consul to France and one of the founders of the Republican Party, was a lifelong man-behind-the-scenes. Historians had left him there...