Word: consulate
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Anna did not get in as much trouble over religion or her antislavery views as over protocol. On a royal invitation, it was said, she had put the name of the U.S. consul below that of the English consul, and the American protested to the King...
HELGI P. BRIEM Consul General New York City...
...Gothic stillness of San Francisco's Grace Episcopal Cathedral. 1,000 men & women of all faiths gathered one noon last week for pre-invasion prayers. They listened as Godfrey Fisher, British consul general in San Francisco, read from Paul's fiery letter to the Ephesians...
...immediate purposes of France and of most Frenchmen in France, that fact makes nonsense of all the questions about De Gaulle. Is he a democrat? A Fascist? A megalomania with an appetite for personal power, whatever the label? A natural born, latter-day First Consul-a Fourth Napoleon? Tough old Rightist Republicans like Louis Marin, newly arrived in London after a close call with the Gestapo, throw back their heads and roar when apprehensive Britons ask if France is ready to accept dictatorship (meaning De Gaulle's) after four years of Nazi rule...
Should Grandmother Die Alone? In the fantastic world of which Author Seghers writes, this strange story does not seem fantastic. For Transit is filled with the weird reality of the flight of thousands of refugees to U.S. consulates that wielded a power of life & death over them. Day after day the refugees stand in endless lines, waiting for the precious documents with their bindings of red tape. Incessantly they discuss the same things-visas, exit permits, transit permits, ship sailings. They are harrowed by terrible doubts: should a family leave its ailing grandmother to die alone, or should they...