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Then came the grandstand play. The Russians decided to close all their consulates in the U.S. and to deny the U.S. the privilege of consular representation in the U.S.S.R...
...cases of some career men, with ill-concealed grins. In her muscular attempt to save face, the U.S.S.R. was abandoning two excellent listening posts, one in San Francisco and one in New York. The U.S. was losing next to nothing: merely the privilege of maintaining an isolated consular outpost in Vladivostok and of endless negotiation for a second consulate in Leningrad...
Russia had had big consular staffs in the U.S. (40 in New York, 13 in San Francisco), and her representatives had been allowed complete freedom. But U.S. Consul Scott Lyon had a staff of only two in Vladivostok. Soviet officials trained floodlights on the consulate at night, refused to let the U.S. officials travel. The U.S. Office of Foreign Service referred to Vladivostok as the "end of the line" and, regarding the job's conditions as comparable in strain to the loneliness and frustration on a lightship, changed the consulate's staff every six months to be sure...
Angrily, the Russians protested that their own doctor would take care of the woman, that they needed no outside help. Police summoned an ambulance anyway. There was another brief scuffle, when police seized a letter written by Mrs. Kosenkina to a friend in Moscow. (The letter was returned to consular officials...
With three weeks to go before the British mandate expires, U.N. was frantically seeking for a workable plan for Palestine. The Security Council appointed a truce commission to try to persuade Arabs and Jews to stop their war. That was almost certainly a futile gesture. Nevertheless, the consular representatives of the U.S., France and Belgium (named as the commission) held a meeting in Jerusalem against a background of gunfire...