Word: consulant
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Instead, Editor R. T. Peyton-Griffin ran a story about a minor squabble between an Englishwoman and a Japanese consul 28 years ago, articles on Philosopher Lao-tse and Hittite hieroglyphics. But though the paper was being starved to death, it could not just lie down and die. In a Page-One box, Peyton-Griffin plaintively announced: "This journal is petitioning the appropriate authorities for permission to cease publication...
...father was a minor official in the Commerce Department's Coast & Geodetic Survey. His mother, descendant of Switzerland's first consul general to the U.S., was a strong-willed woman with a firm belief in the stern principles of Calvinism and a secure knowledge of what was right and what was wrong...
...week's end, one day after settlement of the Gould case, Shanghai's Americans had a bigger & better lock-in on their hands. A month-old labor dispute between the U.S. consulate and 800 former U.S. Navy workers (TIME, July 18) broke out afresh. More than 100 Chinese and Sikh workers infiltrated the consulate building and took over the gates. They demanded 6½ months wages plus severance pay. Acting Consul General Walter P. McConaughy and two other officials were locked in. The workers threatened to bring in their entire force of 800, complete with wives & children...
While shouting masses paraded to celebrate the Communist takeover, U.S. Consul General John M. Cabot decided to run the blockade. Hands in pockets (to avoid any possible charges of having used violence), Cabot advanced to the door; the workers refused to let him pass. "There is nothing we can do," said Mr. Cabot and turned back, hands still in his pockets. His staff broke out K rations...
Before the workers finally withdrew, pending negotiations, a graver incident occurred. Mild, retiring U.S. Vice Consul William M. Olive, who had left the consulate before the siege began, got stuck in his car amid the parading mob; he waited for two hours, then was arrested for traffic violations and obstructing the parade. The Communist cops did not allow U.S. officials to see him in jail. Sixty-six hours later he was released-after, as the Reds put it, "being given sincere and serious education by the police...