Word: consulates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cosmopolitan Tangier-an international zone until Franco grabbed it in 1940-pro-Ally Arabs and Jews have been flogged and imprisoned; Franco's police picketed the British Tangier Gazette and halted its publication. After British Consul General A. D. F. Gascoigne called on General Uriarte, Spanish Governor General of the zone, the Gazette reappeared, and General Uriarte announced that "the German-inspired" anti-Jewish campaign would stop, all arrested Jews would be freed...
...George's churchyard John Howard Payne, author of Home, Sweet Home, lies buried. Payne was American consul at Tunis when he died there...
...lies spang across the Atlantic approach to the Panama Canal. In his umpteenth sharp note, long-suffering Secretary Cordell Hull told the island's Governor, Admiral Georges Robert, that he was, in fact, a tool of Hitler. The U.S. would stand his obstinacy no longer; it recalled its consul general. (But the vice consul and a naval observer were left on the island.) The white-bearded, intransigent Admiral did not reply...
...started as deputy consul in Shanghai, moved around among the consulates in Tientsin, Amoy, Tsinan and Peiping. Back as Consul General in Shanghai in the ticklish years preceding the Sino-Japanese war, he made a quiet reputation for himself by getting small things done unobtrusively and well. As a longtime resident of China, he became virtually the head of Shanghai's International Settlement...
Died. Captain Stephen Hulbert Avenel Haggard, 31, writer-actor son of Sir Godfrey Digby Napier Haggard, British Consul General in New York; grandnephew of Author H. Rider Haggard; in an undisclosed battle area. He appeared with Ethel Barrymore in 1938's Whiteoaks, same year attracted attention with his first novel...