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Napoleon did. The Consul-for-life for the French Republic soon broke with England after the short-lived Peace of Amiens, he threatened to invade England, he declared war against Austria and won the battle of Austerlitz. Prussia declared war against him and lost the battle of Jena...
...required to make any promises to the British Government regarding comments on conditions in Palestine and India. When I applied for visas, British passport officers and British Consul General, New York City, told me that special permission was required for newspapermen to visit Palestine and India. I then explained I was planning a rapid journey around the world and obviously halts would be so brief that it would be impossible for me to undertake anything but superficial surveys of situations. The passport officer immediately, upon learning the nature of my journey, cooperated to the utmost...
Fabrizio, still called in the family "Little Chink.'' Count Ciano, as Italian Consul General in Shanghai, became President of the League of Nations Commission which inquired into Japan's bombardment of Shanghai at a time when "Little Chink" was a babe of five months. Promoted to Minister to China, the Count was sent to the London Economic Conference and. before President Roosevelt wrecked it, Ciano obscurely obtained the Conference's only achievement, an adjustment of Italy's Boxer Rebellion indemnity claims on China to the satisfaction of the Great Powers...
...Arabs when he was called upon to quiet Dr. Khalil Totas, Principal of the Friends' Mission School, "only American Educational Institution in Palestine." Dr. Totas, having received British military instructions to evacuate the school so that it could be used as a barracks, complained bitterly to U. S. Consul General George Wadsworth at Jerusalem. Said General Dill, promptly putting the matter straight: "There has been a mistake.We only want the school playground to pitch our tents...
...Algeciras, shelled and burned her to the water line while British officers watched through field glasses from Gibraltar across the bay. The bombardment also set fire to odorous piles of cork, waiting shipment to Britain, wrecked the British-owned Hotel Cristina and pinked the wife of the British vice consul in the arm. Cruising off Gijon, the yacht Blue Shadow was shelled by a Spanish rebel warship which killed its British owner Captain Rupert Savile and wounded his wife, whose U. S. passport described her as Eloise Drake of Norwich, Conn...