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Some State Department officers seem to care not a damn for our servicemen involuntarily abroad, whose constitutional rights their department signed away in status-of-forces agreements with foreign governments. Donald B. Eddy, U.S. consul...
...Deep Freeze. The Chinese now insist that even India's consul in Lhasa carry an identity card. And India's once well-treated ambassador to Peking is now getting the deep-freeze treatment previously reserved for the out-of-favor Yugoslav ambassador...
...What a Man!" When the news of the fall of France reached Soustelle in Mexico in 1940. he thought of joining the British or Canadians. The British consul told him that a French general had turned up in London. "I didn't know anything about him. He could have been, well, any kind of general." But Soustelle wired his support to Charles de Gaulle, and was summoned to London. There the young competition animal (he was then 28) recognized a man he regarded as fit to be his master. Years afterward an old Marxist friend, cornering Soustelle...
...17th century a French consul dug down into the dunes, sent hundreds of ornate columns to Louis XIV. At the start of the 19th century an English sea captain sent home a second load of marble loot. It now ornaments the grounds at Windsor Castle. The winds blew and the dunes again covered what was left, until digging began in earnest in modern times...
...Flag. Trujillo threw his 15,000-man army into the fighting, called up reserves, sent his "AntiCommunist Foreign Legion'' of retired army men to guard the Haitian border, mobilized the "Horsemen of the East"-a private army led by Cattleman (and former consul in New York) Felix Bernardino. At sea, suspicious Dominican gunboats stopped the U.S. freighter Florida State three times on one of its regular cement-carrying round trips between Puerto Rico and Florida. In the air, a Dominican PSI fired a burst of machine-gun fire and lowered its wheels to force a U.S. Air Force...