Word: consular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British river gun boat Peterel, fired three red warning lights, a minute later opened fire and set it burn ing blackly. Then the destroyer proceeded 100 yards downstream and captured the U.S. gunboat Wake, which had been partially dismantled and was being used merely as a consular wireless station. The flag of the Rising Sun was unfurled from its aftermast...
...speakers will be William Henry Chamberlin, former Christian Science Monitor foreign correspondent and author of "Japan Over Asia"; Dr. Edwin O. Reischauer, Faculty instructor in Far Eastern Languages; Mrs. Elizabeth Schumpeter, world renowned authority on Japanese economics; and William S. Howe '10, former member of the United States consular service in China...
...useful public warning of the fact that the closing of the German consulates does only so much good. With its above-and-below-ground dual flexibility, the machine is capable of swift adjustment. The weekly data can be handled, now, through the German Embassy and through the diplomatic and consular offices of Italy, Japan, France, Spain; it can also be detoured through Central and South America...
This was not Kurusu's first trip to the U.S. He had seen it as a young man, when, in the consular service, he had met and married Alice Little of Chicago. He had seen the U.S. in the days when Japanese, in their first enthusiastic adherence to the Axis, made no secret of their indifference to U.S. opinion, of their reliance on power alone. But when the Clipper came down in San Francisco, after slipping in through the huge ring of defenses that guard the Golden Gate, Saburo Kurusu made his first U.S. statement, hopefully. Said...
...following U.S. example, abruptly severed commercial ties by ordering all 15 German consulates in Mexico closed by Sept. 1, summoning home Mexican consuls from German-held territory on the same date. Earlier the Nazis had requested the recall of the Mexican Vice Consul in Paris and had closed honorary consular offices in Norway, Holland, Belgium and France, but Mexico's reprisal was stiffer than bargained...