Word: consular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What the admiring Press told of George Hanson was that he was a Bridgeport, Conn. boy who studied engineering at Cornell, who, just out of college, in 1909, shipped to China as a student interpreter. He turned into one of the ablest consular officers the U. S. ever had. He served at Shanghai, Chefoo, Dairen, Tientsin, Newchang, Swatow. Chungking and Foochow. He mastered Chinese dialects, Japanese, Russian. At Christmas 1921 he was moved to Harbin in troublesome Manchuria, a consular post he occupied for 13 years. Never a slender tea-party diplomat but a hearty 250-lb. Yankee...
Also getting out, shepherded by sweet-faced Italian nuns with faint mustaches, were numerous bright-eyed little girls of assorted colors, daughters of Italians who have gone native in Ethiopia but made pious provision for their bastards by founding a convent school. Said an Italian consular official as he put the little girls on the train: "They are the future mothers of a new, nobler generation that is going to inhabit the country that was called Ethiopia...
...then showed by having all U. S. citizens in Ethiopia instructed to depart. Immediately the Ethiopian Mission Service ordered all its U. S. and other missionaries to remain at their posts in Ethiopia "whatever happens." Its explanation: "We put our faith in God, and do not expect consular protection." At latest reports from Washington the State Department still had not ordered Chargé D'Af- faires William Perry George to cable the full text of Emperor Power of Trinity's appeal. An ingenious young man at whiling away sultry hours in the squat, square U. S. Legation...
...citizens and their goods are concerned. U. S. consular officials in Germany inclined to believe last week that the revolving fund will be used not so much to dump in the U. S. as in countries with which the Fatherland has clearing agreements. According to the plausible secretariat of smart Dr. Schacht, nothing is farther from his high mind than dumping. He merely hopes to equalize the difference between the value of the German mark, which is relatively high because the mark has not been devalued, and the value of other currencies like the yen, pound and dollar, which have...
...Minister Ariyoshi's Peiping Legation are twin cornerstones of Japanese world diplomacy. Minister Ariyoshi was transferred from Brazil in 1932. Japan's contact man in her recent devious dealings with Chinese politicos, he seldom remains in one place very long but plies between the Japanese diplomatic and consular offices at Nanking, Peiping and Shanghai...