Word: consulates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suffers from stomach trouble, had carried his own black bread and Russian white wine, that he had caviar with his dinner and that he was a good tipper (amounts unspecified). When newsmen got through with him, Ambassador Panyushkin was taken in charge by a State Department representative, the Russian Consul General and six Soviet attach...
Married. Major General Claire Lee Chennault (ret.), 57, granite-faced old China hand; and Anna Chan, 24, Shanghai newspaperwoman, daughter of a onetime Chinese consul in San Francisco; in Shanghai. Ex-Flying Tiger Boss Chennault, who stayed in China to run the Fourteenth Air Force after the U.S. got into the fight (and now runs a China airline carrying relief supplies), was divorced 17 months ago by his first wife, who had borne him eight children...
...Dear Eleanor," his friend since childhood, Sumner Welles wrote a long and friendly letter. But it added up to a brush-off: the State Department had reason to believe that Eisler was a Communist; visas could not be given to Communists ; the U.S. consul general at Havana would listen to whatever evidence Eisler could present on his own behalf, but the law would have to be followed...
Mexicali Ruse. In any case, as the committee knew beforehand, neither Mrs. Roosevelt nor anybody else on its "prominent persons" list had actually been of any help to Eisler. He got into the U.S. late in 1939 on a visa obtained from a "sleepy" consul at Mexicali, Mexico. The consul, Wyllis Myers, whom the committee did not bother to subpoena, issued the visa without bothering to check his files on Eisler...
...experts") to the joint U.S.-Soviet Commission in Seoul was supposed to be helping the U.S. to plan Korean unity. Instead, the Russians have spent most of their time organizing South Korean Communists, and setting up an elaborate espionage system headed by Anatole Ivanovich Shabshin, who was Russian vice consul in Seoul for eight years before the war. U.S. experts wondered when the Russians would feel that their North Korean puppets were strong enough to engulf South Korea without open Soviet help...