Word: consulate
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...press in 15 minutes, devoted 47 columns to the story, and stopped the presses printing its Sunday Magazine to replate with a cover picture of the new Queen. Editors took extra care to keep from stumbling in matters of royal protocol. The Dallas Times-Herald asked the British consul to sit in the newsroom as an adviser on ceremony and mourning. Manhattan's Herald Tribute hastily bought a clear, factual story on royal succession, titles, etc., by Editor Cyril Hankinson of Debrett's Peerage...
...BERENGUER CESAR Consul...
Home on leave from his post as U.S. consul and diplomatic agent at Tangier, the gaunt, silver-haired diplomat testified publicly last week in his own defense. Budenz, he told Senator McCarran's Internal Security subcommittee, was a liar; and we "cannot defend democracy with perfidy or defeat Communism with lies." Four days of questioning revealed little to support Budenz' charge...
...former staff officers celebrated his 72nd birthday with a stag party. He admitted to a reporter that his former Commander in Chief Harry Truman had failed to note the day with a greeting, added that one of his favorite fighting men was still Lucius Aemilius Paulus, the Roman consul sent to fight the Macedonians in 168 B.C., who turned on his critics and told them either to come to Macedonia and fight with him or stay home and be quiet. Said Mac Arthur: "If I chance to meet Lucius Aemilius Paulus in the hereafter, I will be most happy...
Died. Harry A. Woodruff, 48, Manhattan importer and onetime vice consul in Tunis (1941-42); by his own hand (gunshot); in Brooklyn. In North Africa, as assistant to Robert D. Murphy, then counsellor of the U.S. Embassy in Vichy, Woodruff worked in the undercover preparations for the U.S. invasion, won the Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre and U.S. Medal for Merit...