Word: consulars
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...Selectivist," "really an anti-system [containing the best points of] democratic, monarchic, ecclesiastic, Communist and fascist [societies]." Before the fun is over, the story introduces such British supporting players as a callow youth who wants to be "worldlywise like Mr. Somerset Maugham," bounding Newspaperman Wyvell Speen, and a goonlike consular official called Waldo Grimbley, who is delighted when Elaine Brent lands in jail, because he thinks her imprisonment may be used as "a pretext for taking over the bloody country again...
Died. Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern. 53, Polish composer who came to the U.S. in 1945 as consular attaché in New York City, defected from his country's Communist regime in 1948; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...Foreign Service Regulations state: "As a rule, a diplomatic representative or consular officer shall not extend asylum to persons out side of his official or personal household. Refuge may be afforded to uninvited fugitives whose lives are in imminent danger from mob violence but only for the period during which active danger continues...
...Refuge must be refused to persons fleeing from the pursuit of the legitimate agents of the local government. In case such persons have been admitted to the diplomatic or consular premises, they must be either surrendered or dismissed from the mission or consular office...
Overweight Heir. The idea for the Suez Canal fired De Lesseps' imagination when he was 27 years old. Born into a French diplomatic family in 1805, De Lesseps had arrived in Alexandria as a consular official, and read a memoir on the Suez project written by one of Napoleon's aides during the occupation of Egypt 34 years before. He became a close friend of Said, the overweight heir to the Egyptian throne, by giving him free access to the consulate kitchen while the boy's militant father was trying to starve him into a semblance...