Word: consulars
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...useful public warning of the fact that the closing of the German consulates does only so much good. With its above-and-below-ground dual flexibility, the machine is capable of swift adjustment. The weekly data can be handled, now, through the German Embassy and through the diplomatic and consular offices of Italy, Japan, France, Spain; it can also be detoured through Central and South America...
This was not Kurusu's first trip to the U.S. He had seen it as a young man, when, in the consular service, he had met and married Alice Little of Chicago. He had seen the U.S. in the days when Japanese, in their first enthusiastic adherence to the Axis, made no secret of their indifference to U.S. opinion, of their reliance on power alone. But when the Clipper came down in San Francisco, after slipping in through the huge ring of defenses that guard the Golden Gate, Saburo Kurusu made his first U.S. statement, hopefully. Said...
...following U.S. example, abruptly severed commercial ties by ordering all 15 German consulates in Mexico closed by Sept. 1, summoning home Mexican consuls from German-held territory on the same date. Earlier the Nazis had requested the recall of the Mexican Vice Consul in Paris and had closed honorary consular offices in Norway, Holland, Belgium and France, but Mexico's reprisal was stiffer than bargained...
...leaves the Napoli at 19, works in a labor camp, does two years of military service, then goes to his "province" (e.g., California) for four or five years' work in the Nazi consular service or a Nazi corporation. At about 25, if he has passed all these tests, he enters the most exalted of all Nazi schools, the Ordensburgen (Castles of the Order...
...news no longer flows out of Germany; it drips. Most correspondents have departed, and those who remain are fettered by ever-tightening censorship. Last week the drip of news became a trickle, perhaps the last in many a day. Home on the West Point were 118 U.S. diplomatic and consular officials, many of whom had been stationed in Germany until three weeks ago. Though closemouthed on orders of the State Department, they let fall these items of conditions inside Germany: ^ British bombing has been effective, not only in Hamburg but in Cologne. Thousands of women and children have been removed...