Word: consulate
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...great responsibility but a cinch of a job," remarked Ambassador Saito to ship news reporters on the Berengaria. Unlimbering U. S. idioms he learned in 14 years service as consul general in New York and as attache and charge d'affaires in Washington, he asked if he might "swipe" one of the newshawks' cigarets. "My chief purpose in coming he " he announced, "is to drink whiskey with good Americans." So saying, he led the way to the ship's bar. As to the "crisis ahead," Ambassador Saito blandly informed his interviewers : "What has happened can easily...
...Consul William P. George at Ismir, Turkey, reported that one of his clerks went insane because of his reduced income...
...consul in Spain had to send his wife and children home, take a room in the slums...
...Things have now reached the stage," wrote Consul Rollin R. Winslow at Trieste, Italy, "where cream cannot longer be purchased for coffee, when eggs must be used sparingly, when cigarets must be purchased only on rare occasions, when threadbare clothing must suffice, and when any attempt to reciprocate social courtesies unavoidably received at the hands of local officials . . . is remotely out of the question...
...rheumy old Georges Clemenceau who first called dapper, baldish Jean Chiappe "le flic le plus habile de France," "the smartest cop in France." Newspapers like to call the Prefect of Police Little Napoleon, for, like the First Consul, he was born in Corsica. Flic Chiappe went to the Paris prefecture seven years ago after a distinguished career in the Sûreté Générale, the French secret police. It was Jean Chiappe who solved the historic cases of the Hungarian Forgeries and the Rose Diamond of Chantilly...