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...sleek grey ship moved slowly down New York Bay. She had 464 silent passengers on board. For them there would be no more cocktails in glittering bars with wide-eyed café socialites, no lavish dinners for affable U.S. businessmen. They were Nazi and Fascist propaganda agents, consular officers and their families, bound homeward to the grim realities of the New Order...
Angelo V. Jannelli was close to tears as he joined the long line plodding up the gangplank. He had been Italy's consular agent at Johnstown, Pa. since 1932, had not seen his own country for over 30 years. Said Agent Jannelli: "I've thought of the United States as my home." In Fort Worth, Tex., 72-year-old Consular Agent Atillio Ortolani won permission from the State Department to stay in the U.S. Married to a British wife, with two sons in the U.S. armed forces, Agent Ortolani said he would rather go to a concentration camp...
...midnight the West Point was ready for sea. But still it did not sail. She was held up, rumor said, because 234 U.S. consular officials in Europe, on their way to Lisbon from posts in Axis territory, had been halted near the German and Italian borders, were to be kept in Frankfurt am Main and San Remo until the West Point delivered her passengers in Lisbon.* At 3:15 o'clock next afternoon, she sailed at last...
These precautions assuredly were not for the safety of her Axis passengers. They were to protect the returning U.S. consular officers and newsmen who will sail from Lisbon this week. If an Axis nation wanted an incident to plunge the U.S. in a shooting war, a torpedo in the West Point's side would serve neatly...
...Steinhardt and his aides drove 20 miles northeast of threatened Moscow to the emergency quarters appropriately named "The Refuge," on a high bluff overlooking the roaring Klyasma River. There, on an estate surrounded by a high picket fence, in a comfortable, plain, seven-room house, the U.S. Diplomatic and Consular representatives prepared to guard the interests of the U.S. in one-sixth of the earth's surface. They found themselves almost as isolated as the pioneers of the old West, in their stockades in Indian territory...