Word: consulate
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...dependency." For two months France, Britain and the U. S. (among others) have refused to recognize Herr Hitler's conquest. Last week, however, the British took the first step toward legitimatizing the Hitler grab by according de facto recognition to Slovakia. They named Peter Pares, formerly a British consul in the Sudetenland, as consul at Bratislava. Britain also was the first big democratic power to urge recognition of Benito Mussolini's seizure of Ethiopia and Generalissimo Francisco Franco's victory in Spain...
...Saturday there will be a picnic followed by a formal dinner and dance at the Turmverets. Guests at the dinner will be Kari Victor, professor of German Literature, and Dr. Herbert Scholtz, German Consul in Boston...
...even more bland, more thoroughly Americanized than that of his late classmate at the Imperial University. His conversation, like his countenance, is smooth and affable. A 28-year career man, aged 53, he was embassy secretary in London during the War, worked on the peace treaties afterwards. He was consul-general in Manhattan from 1931 to 1934, with homes in Greenwich, Conn, and on Park Avenue. Golf is his game; drinking and smoking are not among his vices. Both he and his wife (childless) are Christians. It is now fashionable in Japan to exhibit Chinese culture. The Horinouchis...
...Harvard has come Brazil's first appeal for intellectual friendship. Through its consul in Boston, it has offered to establish an institute for the study of Brazilian art, literature, music and Portugese. The professors and the library will be supplied from abroad, but the University will have complete control of administration...
University of Tampa is a small institution, eight years old. Recently its president, John Harvey Sherman, was surprised to receive a visit from Baron Edgar von Spiegel, a World War submarine commander, now German consul general at New Orleans. Their conversation had not gone far before it appeared to Mr. Sherman that the Baron had come to make a highly dishonorable proposal: that the university establish a German professorship with Nazi money, the professor and textbooks to be chosen by the Baron. Mr. Sherman ordered the Baron to get out of his office before he called a sheriff...