Word: consulates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...righteous and indignant note, the U.S. State Department told Russia last week that it had had enough of Jacob Lomakin, its consul general in New York City.* The U.S. was going to send him home; it could no longer tolerate the kind of hooliganism that had marked his conduct of the Kasenkina affair (TIME, Aug. 16-23). For a week the world's spotlight was fixed on Lomakin, a typical Soviet public servant...
Kidnap or Rescue? The Russian consulate is a five-story stone Manhattan town house (leased from the niece of the late John D. Rockefeller) on fashionable East 61st Street, across from the Hotel Pierre. Newsmen had been posted outside its grillwork door for five days-ever since Oksana Kosenkina had been brought there from an anti-Soviet refugee camp in New York by Consul General Jacob Lomakin (TIME, Aug. 16). Had she been kidnaped by the Reds? Or had she been rescued, as they insisted, from "White Russian bandits...
...next day, still the victim of the villainous drug, she had permitted a man in an automobile to take her to Reed Farm. Cried Consul Lomakin: "She did not know why she went with him! . . . Many people were around her. They watch...
...Today," he said, "I took my vice consul, and my driver, and came there. I found her in the kitchen . . . Came a few men and took her hand and tried to pull her . . . Three men began to crack the car and damage it. But she still cried, 'Take me home! Take me home!' White Russian bandits, few big men, began to throw some stones. But we got her in the car and we came here...
Later No. 17 had to imagine himself a British consul, addressing an audience of Manhattan Rotarians on the Marshall Plan. After another day of tests, an interview with a psychologist, and tea with Colonel Pinsent, No. 17 returned to London to face the Final Selection Board...