Word: consulate
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...when liberal and radical elements in Europe as well as the U.S. were stirred by the Sacco-Vanzetti case, he was consul at Geneva. One night an ominous crowd gathered in front of the consulate, shouted imprecations against "American killers." Tuck listened for a while, then slipped out to join the crowd, shouted in flawless French: "Give us the head of the American consul...
That reality, no doubt, was clear to swarthy, scheming Pierre Laval when, on the day new Madagascar attacks were launched, he conferred first with German Consul General Krug von Nidda, then with General Alphonse Juin, who succeeded General Weygand as Commander in Chief in French North Africa. Asked if the Madagascar attack increased the possibility of United Nations' action against Dakar, Laval sputtered: "Why ask me? Why not cable Roosevelt...
...striding music (hintful of the Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana) are not new. They were whipped out in 1900 by two Negroes for a Lincoln's Birthday celebration of Negro schoolchildren in Jacksonville. Author is the late James Weldon Johnson, writer, lyricist, educator, first Negro to become a U.S. consul, secretary for 14 years of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Composer is his equally famed brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, popular song writer (Under the Bamboo Tree, Nobody's Lookin' but the Owl and the Moon), collector and arranger of spirituals, onetime musical director...
Last week FBI solved the mystery. Publisher Smyth, arrested with two cronies, pleaded guilty to charges that he got $125,000 from the Japs in four years, paid by Manhattan's Japanese Vice Consul Shintaro Fukushima. The down payment on June 21, 1938, was $15,000. Thereupon Living Age promptly denounced the Open Door as a perfidious British invention, sugared Jap aggression, pooh-poohed the U.S. stakes in the Far East ("so small that they would not pay the Federal tax on cigarets smoked by the nation in ten months"). The Japs guaranteed Living Age's deficit...
They said little of the miseries of their internment. Husbands kissed wives as cameras clicked. Next day newspapers had an unusual pictorial record of marital feelings. Notable was U. Alexis Johnson, U.S. Vice Consul at Mukden. He rushed off the boat, calling to reporters: "I don't want to talk to newspapermen. I want to talk to my wife. I haven't seen her in three years." He spied her in the crowd, walked up to her slowly, gravely...