Word: consulate
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...Paris. A quiet, bespectacled Frenchman, he also probably has as intimate a knowledge of French and Western European politics as any reporter on the continent. He picked up his knowledge of the American idiom by virtue of some years spent in San Francisco, where his father was French Consul, his unquenchable enthusiasm for American baseball as a sports reporter on the San Francisco Chronicle. A fortnight ago he renewed both of these Americanisms during a visit here for conversations with our editors before returning to Paris to cover the reconvening of the U.N. Security Council there...
...Wojnowski, Poland's consul in Milan, Italy, was a bit subtler about it but he had the same general idea. A studious, courteous, bespectacled book collector, he had never been very happy in his consulate. Last summer, after a trip home, he cut out meat, ate only tea and toast for supper and gave up buying books. Staffers wondered why he was saving his pennies. Last week they found...
...days after his replacement arrived from Warsaw, the ex-consul bade them all farewell and proudly displayed two tickets for home, via Venice. Boarding the train next day, he bundled his family off before it reached Venice, roared across the Swiss border in a taxi and hopped the first plane to Johannesburg, South Africa. At the same time the Czechoslovakian Ministry in Rome became impervious to telephone bells. Czech Minister Jan Pauliny-Toth had slipped across the Swiss border, London bound...
California. It reported that "Scientist X" had gone to Nelson's home one night in March 1943, had read to Nelson a "complicated formula" which Nelson copied down. Several days later, Nelson got in touch with the Soviet Consulate in San Francisco, met Vice Consul Peter Ivanov on the grounds of St. Francis Hospital. There, said the report, "Nelson transferred something to Ivanov ... If the matter transferred included the formula that Scientist X had given Nelson-and the inference is irresistible that it did-it was a formula of importance in the development of the atom bomb...
...also cleared up a minor mystery-why had she written a letter to Consul General Lomakin after her first escape to Countess Alexandra Tolstoy's farm? "I wanted to speak to them as human beings in order to see that proper arrangements [for staying in the U.S.] could be made. When they came, they were not human beings at all, but arrested...