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...office boy in the Imperial Japanese Consulate at Nanking stopped at the desk of Vice Consul Eimei Kuramoto fortnight...
...Manhattan press-agent firm of Carl Byoir & Associates. Carl Byoir, onetime publisher of the Havana Post and Telegram, developed to his full stature under George Creel in the Wartime propaganda service. From Publicist Dickey the committee learned that in 1933 the Byoir agency had received $4.000 from Consul Kiep to "explain" Hitlerite anti-Semitism in publicity releases. Since then the firm has handled a $6,000-a-month campaign publicizing German Railways, travel in Germany. Of the $6,000 monthly fee, said Mr. Dickey, $1.750 went to George Sylvester Viereck...
Geneva sat up and stared last week when Salvadorean Consul General Leon Siguenza went round to the Manchukuan Embassy in Tokyo to recognize that country all over again publicly. Thus El Salvador was disclosed as the first League member to break the League's nonrecognition resolution and set a precedent that may cause serious trouble.* No matter how gingerly they handled Japan, nobody in Geneva was afraid of El Salvador. Sternly they talked of booting the recalcitrant little republic out of the League. Foreign Minister Angel Araujo ruffled his hackles to defend El Salvador's honor...
...Vera Cruz last month a circus elephant to which French Consul Marcel Bourguin was feeding bananas suddenly knocked him down, stepped on him, tossed him across the tent (TIME, April 23). Last week in Toluca when one Miguel Solorzano fed the creature banana peels the same elephant trampled him to death...
This story, which assumed international importance opened in January 1933 when Normano was arrested in his Cambridge home on a complaint sworn out by German Consul Kurt von Tippleskirch, for implications in a Berlin swindle. Normano was identified by German authorities as Isaac Lewin who had promoted a $750,000 counterfeiting job in Germany and then field to South America...