Word: consulates
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...publicity, and the U. S. press has faithfully reported Lily Pons's comings & goings, her decorations and honors. She is a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor, holds Belgium's Order of the Crown, the Gold Medal of the City Paris, a certificate as honorary consul of Cannes, an honorary inspectorship in the Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles. Three flowers, a South American race horse, a restaurant, a Boston & Maine locomotive and a New Jersey Central streamlined train have been named for her. Los Angeles and Norwalk, Conn. have celebrated Lily Pons days...
Above all, let us give the most immediate and visible sign of our own determination to the world. Let us kick out every Nazi and every Fascist consul in the country and clean out the central nests from which saboteurs and spies move with impunity against our whole defense effort...
University of Havana students whipped up a resolution demanding nonrecognition of the new Consul, fearing he would use his diplomatic immunity to promote Cuban fascism. Other Cubans stirred up so much trouble that police barred all visitors from the pier when the Marques de Camillas pulled in. Then shrewd Boss Batista heard his present was to be a sword from the Spanish Falangist Party and turned it down before it was even offered. Said his secretary: "He esteems it improper and inappropriate to think that a foreign political party with an ideology so contrary to that of the persons...
...slick brother-in-law Don Ramon Serrano Suner returned from his first trips to Berlin and Rome he began tapping members for a Hispanidad Council, designed to foster "intelligence and love" for Spain in Latin America. Since one of the first Councilors was Spain's new Consul for Havana, it looked as if Don Ramon meant to replace German and Italian fifth columns with the Falange...
Some small success has already come Spain's way. After repairing its diplomatic break with Chile, whose Valparaiso Consul is also a Hispanidad Councilman, Spain began taking first shipments on a 150,000-ton nitrate order last week. But Riestra's reception in Havana was evidence that Latin America was not yet ready for a full dose of Axis-made love and intelligence...