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...until Commodore Perry appeared off the Japanese coast in 1854 with ten battleships were the Shoguns or Tycoons ("High Princes") intimidated back into contact with the world. Not until two years later did Townsend Harris, as U. S. Consul General, raise at Kakisaki, near Shimoda, the first consular flag ever unfurled in Japan. Despatches told last week that many a parchment skinned workman is chipping with light mallet and fine chisel at a granite memorial to be unveiled on completion at the spot where Mr. Harris raised his standard...
...American people-demands today that the United States be less niggardly toward its officials abroad." Within the last two years Congress has also decided that something ought to be done to lift the U. S. diplomat out of the tatterdemalion era. In 1924 the Rogers Act combined the consular and diplomatic corps into a single foreign service, and increased most of the salaries. At the last session Congress passed the Porter Bill which provides for the gradual acquisition and construction of Official residences for U. S. ambassadors and ministers. It is obvious that the next step may well...
...part* to the Act of Algeciras (1906), delimiting the foreign spheres of influence in Morocco. By the supplemental Franco-British-Spanish Convention of 1923, the permanent neutrality of Tangier has been established and the city placed under the control of an international commission whose members are the eight local consular officers of the Powers adherent to the Act of Algeciras. Therefore, the Spanish declaration of last week re-opened on a trumped-up issue a question long ago adjusted mutually by the Powers, and stirred again many always delicate issues. For example, Britain has never been willing that...
...Ambassador of the United States to Europe-without Portfolio"-a curious title for a joke-smith. The braided butler of the consular drawing-room chants it through his thorax, scorching the sibilants, booming the o's. The company stares at the newcomer. Famous women turn, over ivory shoulders, a glance cool with appraisal; gentlemen in dinner shirts striped with impossible decorations raise their monocles or feel for their small arms while he shambles into the room-"Viva, l'Ambassadeur." He wears an old grey suit. A jazbo necktie adorns, but fails to hide, the golden collar-stud...
...black, red and gold) through the action of the National Assembly at Weimar in 1919. Recently the Luther Cabinet ordered that the merchant marine flag (black, white and red with a tiny black, red and gold field in the staff corner) should also be flown by German diplomatic and consular offices. This flag was denounced as "nine-tenths Imperial and only one-tenth Republican" by the Left parties; and last week Chancellor Luther was savagely interpellated about it in the Reichstag...