Word: consular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Earlier in the week the Japanese War Ministry had fulminated against the meddlesomeness in Manchuria of consular and military "observers" sent there by the Great Powers. Thus the bloody assault on Consul Chamberlain might have been construed as a warning, but the Imperial Government blandly described it as a "misunderstanding...
Victor P. W. Stanwood, consular agent at Anadakabe, Madagascar, shot and killed by Captain Duverge in a dispute growing out of the wreck of the U. S. vessel Solitaire...
...fallen President but rushed past, seized the assassin by neck and wrist and held him, shouting: "This is the man!" until relieved by policemen. Assassin Guiteau was a disappointed office-seeker whom both Garfield and Elaine had ordered kept off their premises. He had wanted, apparently, a consular appointment...
...current events, which diplomacy occupies, and the amount of public attention which it has always received, it is surprising to note that it is without question one of the smallest professions. There are probably less than 12,000 officials in the whole world in the combined Diplomatic, Consular and Foreign Office Services of all Powers, and if we should take the Diplomatic establishment alone, it would presumably be about a quarter of this number, or some 3,000. One can get some appreciation of these figures from considering the proportion of the Foreign Service in the United States, where there...
With all its past surplusses and vaunted wealth the United States has dealt niggardly with its younger diplomats and almost not at all with the graduates of its foreign service who have not ample personal means. Many young men in the consular service have been forced to withdraw from government employ because the salaries granted them were insufficient to insure even the necessities of a life conforming with the standards of living and entertainment expected of representatives of the United States, Because of the impossibility of supporting a suitable establishment, as advances in position brought added social responsibility and emoluments...