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...action. When Secretary of State John Foster Dulles asked his lieutenants to "act as forceful salesmen" in collecting contributions for the Washington Community Chest, Salesman McLeod reacted with characteristic forcefulness. Last week orders went down to the 1.142 employees of his Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs that everyone must either make a voluntary contribution to the chest or explain personally to McLeod. The word soon reached the Community Chest's Director Edward J. Keyes, who reacted with shocked surprise. He deplored McLeod's "excessive zeal," and added that "we do not approve of [this] kind of coercion...
Thirty years ago, when Germany and the U.S. signed a Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Consular Rights, the New York Times called it "a return to the normal relations that were disrupted by the war." Last week, following yet another war, West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and U.S. High Commissioner James Bryant Conant sat across a mahogany table in the federal chancellery and scrawled their names. Thereby they agreed to revive the 30-year-old pact and get back toward diplomatic business as usual. Once more the Times hailed it as a "move of the U.S. and West...
...McCarran Act specified that henceforth alien crew members, t00,1) must have individual visas, and 2) must subject themselves to all the questions other travelers are asked. The Department of State said it would take one to two years to add another 100 consular officials to its foreign service to be able to handle the additional work under the McCarran Act. In the meantime, the U.S. Immigration Service made a "gentleman's agreement" with the major foreign shipping lines to put an inspector aboard the big liners to screen the crews during the voyage; this would avoid a hopeless...
...fugitive from justice. But the brains behind the exploit was Nylon Sid, who was lurking in Marseille waiting to dispose of the loot when the Esme's crew was captured. Spanish cops nabbed Nylon Sid when he skipped to Madrid; last week he faced trial before a U.S. consular court in the internationalized port of Tangier...
...Forrest had chartered the Esme to do a "salvage job" off Malta; anything else that happened was all Forrest's doing because Nylon Sid wasn't there. Besides, said his lawyer, "this is the season of 'Peace on earth, good will to all men.'" U.S. Consular Judge Milton J. Helmick was unmoved; he found Nylon Sid guilty and sentenced him to three years in prison. Nylon Sid -would be allowed out on appeal, said the judge, if he would put up as bail $10,000 and his cream-colored Cadillac...