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...inability of students to get out of China since the Communist triumphs there, the enrollment of Chinese students this year is about 40 below normal. Now that American consular officials are leaving China, this figure will drop off move, since it will be impossible for students to obtain visas...
...occupations of these TIME Perpetuals include lawyers (unsurprisingly, the largest group) bankers, educators, clergymen (including Cardinal Spellman), consular officials, members of the armed forces, a farmer, a retired blueberry grower, a clock maker, college professors, doctors, engineers, a textile manufacturer, a lithographer, a building contractor, a housewife-concert pianist...
...been used as a barracks since 1947, and as diplomatic quarters it was protected by treaty. All his protests were returned, unacknowledged, and looking as though they had been opened and read. Then Washington warned Peking that the U.S. would answer seizure of its consulate by removing all U.S. consular officials from China. Again no response...
...destroyed some of his codes and dispatches, moved the rest without interference into his residence next door. In Washington, the Department of State signaled for the orderly closing down of consulates in Peking, Tientsin, Shanghai, Tsingtao and Nanking. Nobody was sure when or how the 135 members of the consular families would be granted exit permits. For the first time in 105 years, the U.S. would shortly be without listening posts in China...
...same day was any more than coincidence. Wellesley faculty members were disturbed, however, over what one of them termed "passing the buck:" That is, Paris officials stating that they had to wait for word from Washington while Washington was pointing out that the final decision was up the consular officials in France. Wellesley teachers are also indignant at the type of questioning Emmanuel was put through...