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Shortly after they took Mukden last November, the Chinese Communists dropped their Bamboo Curtain over the U.S. consulate general in the Manchurian metropolis. Communist guards virtually imprisoned the n Americans, led by kindly, goateed Consul General Angus I. Ward, within their consular compound, denied them radio facilities, branded them as "espionage organs." Last week, after seven incommunicado months, Angus Ward finally got a letter through to the U.S. consul general in Peiping. His staff was safe and morale "good." But Angus Ward had no word as to when & how he could follow Washington's order of last...
David Bruce, 50, hale and pink-cheeked, directed ECA's mission to France. Onetime son-in-law (now divorced) of Andrew Mellon, a prudent man of varied experience (law, A.E.F., consular service, banking, corporate affairs.* Red Cross, OSS, Virginia legislature, U.S. Department of Commerce), Bruce had become bound up, to the exclusion of almost everything else in his thinking and feeling, with the problems, virtues and defects of France...
Salaries in the service are based at $3300 and duties, diplomatic or consular, range from reporting on the political, economic and social aspects of the foreign situation through the administering of trade and commerce for the United States, the protecting of her citizens and property, the issuing of visas, to carrying out U. S. foreign policy as directed by the Department of State...
Nine Hungarian consular and diplomatic officials in Washington, New York and Cleveland resigned in protest against the Mindszenty trial. Catholic pickets, carrying signs denouncing Communist Hungary, knelt in New York's City Hall plaza, holding their rosaries in pleading gesture. A delegation of demonstrators called on Bela Belassa, acting Hungarian consul general in New York. They were surprised when he said: "I agree with your protests. I am resigning as of this moment." Mrs. Belassa explained: "My husband has been living in torment . . . The hills of Buda and across the river the plains of Pest; surely we will miss...
...housekeeper for a federal judge. In 1937 she went to Poland again. This time she was a naturalized citizen with a citizen's rights. She had money. With the judge's help, she had even wangled a letter of introduction to U.S. consular officials from Secretary of State Cordell Hull. But she was overwhelmed by red tape all over again, came home without Adolf and with only three dollars in her pocket...