Word: consulates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...operations, I wasn't sure they might not be fools enough to attempt to try to make a Stalingrad of the town. So the morning of the 11th maybe it wasn't a relief to find that an armistice had been arranged! I called on the Swiss consul who had taken over American interests, found that the American consulate people were expected back soon. The Swiss took me out there in his car. The news had already spread, for the streets all around the consulate were lined with people and there were swarms of French police at hand...
...submitted to the Steinach operation. He went off to Majorca with a swami to translate the Upanishads-a rest somewhat addled when a visiting poetess, mad with joy over praise from Yeats, so conducted herself as to fall on a valuable dog for whose injuries the Peruvian Consul presented a bill...
Vice and deputy consul-general at Rio de Janeiro, 1903-4; vice consul at Nagasaki, Japan, 1904-5; consul at Vladivostok, 1905-7; vice president in the Far East of the Rockefeller Foundation, 1927-29; acting director of Peiping Union Medical College, 1927-35; member of the American Society of International Law, Council on Foreign Affairs, and the Oriental Association; general director of the China Medical Board of the Rockefeller Foundation...
...that Intelligence was on an idyllic Hawaiian holiday. On Saturday, Dec. 6, a Japanese resident who had never before filed press dispatches telephoned a Tokyo newspaper, gave a report on weather, patrols, and "poinsettias and hibiscus in bloom" (battleships and cruisers in the harbor). For a week the Japanese consul had been sending an excessive number of cables to Tokyo...
Born in Madison, Wis. of a New England family, Wilder grew up in China (his father was U.S. Consul General at Hong Kong and Shanghai) and California. Even at Yale, from which he graduated in 1920, Wilder gave promise of being one of the coming U.S. literary lights, attracted the favorable attention of William Lyon Phelps and other pundits. A scholarly bachelor with a high, nervous voice, who knows half a dozen languages, speaks in a stumbling rush when excited, he went on teaching at Lawrenceville School and the University of Chicago long after he became famous. Most traditional...