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...Japanese in the Hawaiian Islands (more than one-third of the population), Tokyo had plenty of talent, as it has among the 29,000 in the Philippines. Top civilian in the Hawaiian fifth column was the Japanese Consul General. His immediate instrument was the consular police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: No. I Fifth Column | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...chief job of the consular police was organization of the Ronin, cellular organizations of youths educated in U.S. schools and preserved in their devotion to the Mikado by classes in Japanese schools. For these the Consul General chose many of the teachers, and they were probably spies too. Both the consular police and the Ronin were financed by the Consul General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: No. I Fifth Column | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...here." Sometimes they had nothing at all to say: Louisiana State University students massed, marched to the President, who came out in his dressing gown with no message except "study hard." Sometimes they laughed at something someone else had said, like the remark of the Chinese Vice Consul of New Orleans, who announced: "As far as Japan is concerned, their goose is overheated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War: What the People Said | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Thomas Herbert Norton, 90, chemist who studied European chemical industries while he was U.S. consul at Chemnitz, Germany (1906-14), returned home to compile the famed "Dyestuff Census," on which the beginnings of the domestic dye industry were founded during World War I when German dyestuffs were unavailable; in White Plains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 15, 1941 | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

Brisk, skeptical, pedantic Mr. Messersmith was a school superintendent for 14 years before he entered the foreign service, then started the hard way as a consul in Canada. A stern crusader for the democracies, he was in Berlin as Consul General when the Nazis came to power. U.S. citizens in Berlin liked him because he was not afraid to talk tough when the rights of a U.S. citizen were infringed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Messersmith to Mexico | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

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