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Never before had a U. S. diplomatic or consular official been allowed inside one of the prisons of the U. S. S. R. Smart, the Secret Political Police, instead of taking the Charge d'Affaires to their prisoner in Bolshevism's ominous new Lubianka Prison in the heart of Moscow, carefully took him instead to a onetime Tsarist prison in the suburbs, Butyrskaya. There they found an airtight setup. U. S. Citizen Rubens, who appeared decently dressed in a zipper-closed U. S. frock, was not permitted to talk freely or be alone even for a moment with...
Although Germany has the same kind of agreement with Russia, not one or two but hundreds of Germans are today in Soviet jails and for years German diplomatic & consular officials have not been allowed to see them. The U. S. State Department, fully aware of all this, forehandedly reminded Moscow that, although Mrs. Rubens entered Russia on a fraudulent U. S. passport, it was stamped with an authentic visa...
...royal couple will arrive in the United States on June 27, according to the report. If the consular officials expect him to get his degree at Commencement, they will be surprised, more than somewhat, since Commencement is on June...
...last 15 months, but have nevertheless enjoyed an abundance of rich milk, fresh eggs, even non-rancid olive oil-items generally missing from the present Madrid cuisine. The American newsmen, Filipinos, Puerto Ricans now residents of the once ducal palace have to thank no U. S. diplomatic or consular representative for these wholesome victuals, but Captain Frank William Cannaday, a gloomy, stubborn Virginian who fought in the Spanish-American War and prospected for gold in Venezuela before becoming a poultry farmer on the Castilian plateau...
...meantime he had acquired a promising reputation by serving with special American delegations abroad and at one period was made charge d'affaires in Switzerland. Rumor had him slated for a minister's post. Last year he went to Beirut, Syria for experience in the consular service. Friends in Paris feared the Syrian climate would be bad for his health...