Word: consulate
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...edible cargoes have eaten them (one ship had nothing but oranges and lemons). The men receive eight guilders ($4.24) per month to spend on shore, plus 20 paper marks good aboard ship (for barber, laundry, etc.). The one man ashore in Curaçao who might help them, German Consul Fensohn...
...conducted ourselves . . . and said our State Department was grateful. ... I was badly in need of a haircut and so were the rest of the crew, so we asked for a barber." Ashore went First Mate Rhoads to have Thanksgiving dinner with Maurice P. Dunlap, the consul: "After drinking all of Mr. Dunlap's cider we played rummy for several hours, then returned to the ship...
...home could be arranged for them. They had been booked on the Japanese Tatuta Maru but reports of British war vessels waiting offshore to grab them changed this plan. In charge of getting the Columbus men back to the Fatherland is Adolf Hitler's crony. Captain Fritz Wiedemann, Consul General at San Francisco. Waterfront talk was that, now that the British were on the alert, he would try shipping them in small lots on different ships, perhaps even on the Japanese "fishing boats" with which California waters abound...
...Shanghai Consul General Clarence E. Gauss, who has done a notable job in a diplomatic hotspot, was shifted to a new, Pacific post, became first U. S. Minister to Australia...
...must leave the U. S. by year's end. Not anxious for U. S. citizenship, but wishing to qualify for a permanent chair of philosophy at the University of California (where he has been lecturing), Earl Russell will go to Ensenada, Mexico, try to persuade the U. S. consul there to admit him permanently...