Word: consular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Austria owed the U. S. some $25,000,000, enjoyed most-favored-nation trade status. Since problems presented by debts, tariffs, immigration, consular service will henceforth have to be settled through Berlin, it was obviously impossible for Secretary Hull not to recognize the annexation. Two days after Mr. Prochnik's visit, Mr. Hull announced with diplomatic prolixity that "the events pertaining to the changes which have taken place in the status of the Austrian Republic will necessitate, on the part of the Government of the United States, a number of technical steps, which are now being given appropriate consideration...
Barcelona had definitely become too hot at last for two grandees of Spain, the Marquis de Urquijo and the Duke of Saragossa, who found themselves in Madrid on the day the war began, have since been living expensively but safely in embassy and consular premises of the French Popular Front Government. Into Barcelona harbor suddenly steamed last week two French warships, the Epervier and La Palme. These took off the Marquis de Urquijo, the Duke of Saragossa and 510 other Spanish Rightists, many robust young men of aristocratic Spanish families who appear to have been living like fighting cocks, despite...
...tabloid Daily Mail, was in Spain last year covering the Loyalist front for Hearst, and testified that she had been arrested and imprisoned for 43 days in a rat-infested dungeon without being told the charges against her or being given a chance to communicate with consular officials. (The N. Y. Times for Oct. 11, 1936 reports that the charge was espionage...
Never before had a U. S. diplomatic or consular official been allowed inside one of the prisons of the U. S. S. R. Smart, the Secret Political Police, instead of taking the Charge d'Affaires to their prisoner in Bolshevism's ominous new Lubianka Prison in the heart of Moscow, carefully took him instead to a onetime Tsarist prison in the suburbs, Butyrskaya. There they found an airtight setup. U. S. Citizen Rubens, who appeared decently dressed in a zipper-closed U. S. frock, was not permitted to talk freely or be alone even for a moment with...
Although Germany has the same kind of agreement with Russia, not one or two but hundreds of Germans are today in Soviet jails and for years German diplomatic & consular officials have not been allowed to see them. The U. S. State Department, fully aware of all this, forehandedly reminded Moscow that, although Mrs. Rubens entered Russia on a fraudulent U. S. passport, it was stamped with an authentic visa...