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...issuing of quota certificates by consular officers abroad, so that hereafter immigrants need not be turned back after reaching American shores, on the ground that they are in excess of quota...
PREMIER Poincaré, in replies: "I am not a man who has silently harbored illusions about consular power. M. Herriot mistakes me for another eminent personage [ex-Premier Caillaux] whose shadow creeps timidly around certain political meetings and is not very strongly repulsed by M. Herriot and his party. . . . When the Government's adversaries have the courage to vote publicly against it, the Government will know what it ought...
...start almost anyhow and end almost everywhere. Sir Harry Johnston began life as a student of painting and zoology in London; he is ending it by writing vigorous novels in which there appear imaginary descendants of Dickens' characters; and he spent the intervening time in the British consular service...
With the unemotional conciseness of a consular report, this book gives the record of his amazingly versatile and far-flung career. An early passion for travel sent him to Tunis; he was meditating a trip to central Asia when one of those remarkable accidents which seemed always to be happening to intelligent and well-connected young Englishmen 40 years ago diverted him to the west coast of Africa, with a letter to Explorer Stanley in his pocket...
...Esme, aged 60, has held a number of diplomatic, consular and political posts, among which was that of Councillor of Embassy in Washington from 1906 to 1908. When the South African War broke out, he joined the Yeomanry as a trooper and received the Queen's medal and four clasps...