Word: consulate
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...shanters or astrakhan fur caps. This sort of costume, reinforced by his Vandyke beard, produced a distinctly undiplomatic effect, and veteran Foreign Service men still recall with delight the day when a newly arrived junior official, mistaking him for the doorman of the Moscow embassy, curtly handed U.S. Consul Ward his luggage and a two-ruble...
...final, unique chapter in Ward's diplomatic education came in November 1948, when the Chinese Communists captured the Manchurian city of Mukden, where he was consul general. For seven months Ward was kept under house arrest, and Washington heard nothing from him. The State Department, determined at that point not to be beastly to the Chinese Reds, made no protest. Even when Ward and four of his aides were jailed on trumped-up charges (of having beaten up a former Chinese employee of the consulate), it was only after the Scripps-Howard newspapers launched a campaign against passive...
...semi-freezing solitary confinement, and throughout had stubbornly refused to give the Reds a "confession." Ironically enough, this very nearly ruined his career. Irritated by the controversial publicity he had received, Foreign Service brass was inclined to regard Ward as a nuisance, and in September 1950 he was named consul general in Nairobi, a job that made little use of his peculiar qualifications and background...
...Soviet Union's two South in- Pretoria and Cape Town -their doors last week on orders of South Africa's Nationalist government. Said External Affairs Minister Eric Louw : "The Russian consul general has cultivated and maintained contact with subversive elements in South Africa and has formed channels of communication between them and Moscow." Consul General N. V. Ivanov denied (as the Communists always do) any subversive activity, but freely admitted another charge leveled by the Union government : that Negroes, who can not buy or be given liquor in South Africa, had been served vodka at Russian consular parties...
...Arcayas. Son Carlos and daughter Ana flew to Manhattan from Madrid. Eager but doubtful, they conferred with son Mariano, a Park Avenue lawyer. On advice from home, Ana went to Caracas and arrived unharmed. Carlos, a scholarly, nonpolitical lawyer, was picked to make the next test. The New York consul gave him a visa and General Pérez Jiménez' word on the honor of the army that he would not be mistreated...