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Asked about the Foreign Service examinations for the consular service. Arnold declared that good English and clear literary style are becoming more important every year, rather than command of many foreign languages...
...approve it. Last week Secretary of State Cordell Hull solved his puzzle neatly in two simultaneous notes to the German Government. Note No. 1 recognized the annexation, stated that the U. S. "finds itself under the necessity as a practical measure" of closing its Vienna legation and appointing a consular staff in its place. Net result, since the U. S. ministry in Austria was vacant anyway, was that John C. Wiley will stay on as consul general. Excerpt from Note No. 2: "I have to notify the German Government that the . . . United States will look to it for the discharge...
Austria owed the U. S. some $25,000,000, enjoyed most-favored-nation trade status. Since problems presented by debts, tariffs, immigration, consular service will henceforth have to be settled through Berlin, it was obviously impossible for Secretary Hull not to recognize the annexation. Two days after Mr. Prochnik's visit, Mr. Hull announced with diplomatic prolixity that "the events pertaining to the changes which have taken place in the status of the Austrian Republic will necessitate, on the part of the Government of the United States, a number of technical steps, which are now being given appropriate consideration...
Barcelona had definitely become too hot at last for two grandees of Spain, the Marquis de Urquijo and the Duke of Saragossa, who found themselves in Madrid on the day the war began, have since been living expensively but safely in embassy and consular premises of the French Popular Front Government. Into Barcelona harbor suddenly steamed last week two French warships, the Epervier and La Palme. These took off the Marquis de Urquijo, the Duke of Saragossa and 510 other Spanish Rightists, many robust young men of aristocratic Spanish families who appear to have been living like fighting cocks, despite...
...tabloid Daily Mail, was in Spain last year covering the Loyalist front for Hearst, and testified that she had been arrested and imprisoned for 43 days in a rat-infested dungeon without being told the charges against her or being given a chance to communicate with consular officials. (The N. Y. Times for Oct. 11, 1936 reports that the charge was espionage...