Word: consulates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nature and not by virtue of the fact that Argentina and Brazil are somewhat jealous of each other's influence in Paraguay. With a harmonious rattle, U.S. -made light tanks and German-made anti-aircraft guns rolled down the Praça da Republica. Even U.S.-ousted Nazi Consul General Fritz Wiedemann, who turned up in Rio for the birthday party, purred that he was on a "special mission...
...Mexico City President Manuel Avila Camacho's Government, following U.S. example, abruptly severed commercial ties by ordering all 15 German consulates in Mexico closed by Sept. 1, summoning home Mexican consuls from German-held territory on the same date. Earlier the Nazis had requested the recall of the Mexican Vice Consul in Paris and had closed honorary consular offices in Norway, Holland, Belgium and France, but Mexico's reprisal was stiffer than bargained...
...Cabinet members, Ambassadors, Government officials, other bigwigs. But the guest of honor was a stocky, middle-aged man with a long face and a white-toothed smile who has never held any diplomatic post above that of charge d'affaires: Alabama-born George Platt Waller, for ten years consul and charge d'affaires in Luxembourg...
When the invasion came George Waller stuck to his post. When the Germans ousted U.S. diplomats from occupied countries in July 1940 he dropped his diplomatic title, became simply consul. On his desk he kept a picture of the Grand Duchess, changed the flowers before it daily. Finally the Germans ousted the consuls too, and George Waller returned to the U.S. on the West Point last fortnight...
...times ex-Senator Rauschning's book has a querulousness that suggests not Newman but the Roman ex-Consul Boethius (circa 480-524), who in The Consolation of Philosophy complained of his enemies while awaiting execution after his Rauschningesque failure to cooperate with the Barbarian Ostrogoths. He also has some of Boethius' wordiness, and indulges a nostalgic yearning for his farm and blooded heifers, which he lost when the Nazis raised a sign: Rauschning, traitor to the people, lives here...