Word: consulate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon after their marriage Count Ciano & wife were packed off to China, where he was first Consul General at Shanghai, then Minister to China. Recalled to Italy in 1933, he became Under Secretary of State, then Minister for Press & Propaganda, and it began to appear that Edda, the apple of Il Duce's eye, could get for Husband Galeazzo just about any job she wished...
Anti-Semitic Nazis, invoking their own version of the Mosaic law-a consul for a consul-last week countered Britain's expulsion of spyster German Consul General Reinhardt with a demand that England withdraw Consul General Donald St. Clair Gainer from Vienna. Charge against Consul General Gainer was also dabbling in espionage. Fumed a spokesman for the British Consul General: "Sheer nonsense seems a clear case of retaliation...
Literary kudos came to Author Reinhardt in 1932. While he was consul at Seattle, the Strassburger Foundation to further U. S.-German friendship awarded its $1,000 prize to his terse, lively, human, 367-page Washington biography, The Story of the Making of a Nation. In it Author Reinhardt compared General Washington to Field Marshal von Hindenburg, his all-time hero. Among the literary judges who picked the book were Scientist Albert Einstein, Authors Thomas Mann, Jacob Wassermann, Stefan Zweig. All are now dead or in exile...
...tall-story teller in conversation, Consul Reinhardt used to have breathless U. S. socialites bug-eyed as he described his escape from a Bolshevik prison. Jailed while assisting prisoners during the Russian Revolution, Consul Reinhardt day by day watched Chinese guards lead away some of his companions to be executed, waited for his own turn to come. It never did. Instead "a very beautiful young lady, wrapped in furs" guided Herr Reinhardt and cell mates to two waiting limousines, sped them to a hideout, kept them supplied with food. Later the Consul learned that his rescuer was a Jewish girl...
...friends of Consul Reinhardt hint that at present he is being put on the spot by intriguing Nazis, who, they claim, do not like him, have sidetracked his diplomatic career...