Word: consulates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Consul General declined to attend on the grounds that his country had already submitted the issue to the United Nations...
...setting of Under the Volcano is chiefly a run-down villa in the Mexican town of Quauhnahuac (presumably modeled on the popular Anglo-American "colony" of Cuernavaca, where Author Lowry once lived). In the villa, matching its decay with his own collapse, lives Geoffrey Firmin, onetime British vice-consul in Quauhnahuac, now a mentally tortured, helpless dipsomaniac. Upon him, one bright morning-just as he is staggering out of a bar, still wearing last night's tuxedo-descends his divorced American wife Yvonne, in a last desperate effort to remake their marriage...
...also present at the villa, en route to Loyalist Spain, is the ex-consul's halfbrother, Hugh, a leftwing, guitar-playing rover who has been in love with Yvonne for years. By nightfall of the same day, Hugh and Yvorme have been drawn together-and the helpless consul is lying dead in a ravine, shot by a gang of Mexican semi-fascist desperadoes who mistake him for his leftist halfbrother...
Last week, Victor Manuel Aguilar Monge's trip to Heaven was all over. Just 2½ years after the policeman stopped him in San Antonio, he walked into Costa Rica. Happily he trudged off for San Jose, to look for the U.S. consul...
...troops trying to put down Toussaint's revolution, and willy-nilly mixes in on Toussaint's side. By page 300 Haiti is left far behind; Albion and Lydia languish as prisoners aboard a Tripolitan xebec manned by ruffians in green turbans, and Lear has become U.S. Consul General in Algiers...