Word: consulate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...glass of good wine. Bloch resented serving under politically appointed ambassadors in Vienna, but his real complaint is with the State Department's failure to consider him for appointment as Ambassador to East Germany, and his later lack of success in becoming Deputy Ambassador to the Hague or Consul General in Munich, even though he had the backing of his immediate bosses...
Captured after four days, Loc later became Poland's first Consul-General in Israel. Back in Warsaw, he was fired from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs during a wave of anti-Semitism in 1953 and immigrated to Israel...
...Americans have been reported among the dead, said Dan Sainz, the U.S. vice consul in Mazatlan, but he said bodies were still being found...
...Britons ordered out included Embassy Second Secretary Michael Anderson; Second Secretary Adam Noble; Third Secretary Paul Sharp; Vice Consul Helen Pickering; Naval Attache Capt. Christopher Meyer; Assistant Naval Attache Lt. Cmdr. Christopher Watson; Assistant Military Attache Maj. Nigel Shakespear; and Warrant Officer Laing Purfit of the Defense Ministry staff...
...early as 1927, the young vice consul senses an approaching malaise in Hamburg: "The city talks with a thrilling breathless strength through the restless machinery of its harbor, and yet talks with the voice of unutterable horror, through the lurid, repulsive alleys of St. Pauli." Kennan watches a 23-year-old pianist who is "Jewish, from Russia, and evidently is rumored to be near to death with tuberculosis . . . When he played . . . it seemed as though he himself were being played upon by some unseen musician -- as though every note were being wrung out of him." Many things have altered...