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Present at the time was a U.S. consular official with only one duty: the standard consular task of seeking for arrested Americans the same justice enjoyed by the arresting country's own citizens. In Simmons' case, however, the U.S. official failed to protest the patent violation of Mexican line-up law. He had never heard...
Miss Knight, however, regards anything less than complete cooperation with the FBI as one manifestation of "Schwartzism," a phenomenon she named after Abba P. Schwartz, former director of the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs. Schwartz, a proponent of more liberal passport policies, resigned three weeks ago after he got wind of a Knight-encouraged and Rusk-approved plan to abolish his bureau. And now that he has been phased out of the State Department, a little creeping "Schwartzism" might be a fitting legacy...
...Schwartz, the President was unmistakably concerned lest the resignation further alienate the party's liberal wing, already unhappy with Johnson's Viet Nam policy. As administrator of the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs, Schwartz had worked for a relaxation of curbs on immigration, travel and the admission of refugees. He quit, he said, after learning that he was the intended victim of a planned State Department reorganization eliminating his 17-man bureau. Actually, it was no secret that certain department officials had vigorously opposed Schwartz, particularly on his liberal visa policy for foreigners visiting...
After these early triumphs, Harte went on writing for another 30 years, mostly abroad, where he had gone after wangling a post in the U.S. consular service. He formed a menage a trois with a Belgian couple in London, dictating his diary to his host's wife and patting the heads of her nine children. Finally discharged from the consular service for "inattention to duty," he lived on with the Belgian widow, under sentence of death from cancer of the throat. In 1902, he died at 65 in the best Western tradition, with his boots on and almost broke...
...JIRI MAJSAJDR Chief, Consular Division Czechoslovak Embassy Washington...