Word: consulates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ishii is a pink-cheeked, affable, stogy-smoking diplomat who was once (1929-30) Japanese Consul in New York. Last December he became spokesman for the Japanese Cabinet, replacing the somewhat less affable Foreign Office spokesman, slightly cockeyed, definitely popeyed, short, swart Yakichiro Suma. Last week Diplomat Ishii talked the Japanese Foreign Office into a lot of trouble...
Last fall General Smuts got to work on the Brandwag, proved in a series of well-publicized trials that its leaders got both ideas and money from a Nazi consul in Portuguese East Africa, only 400-odd miles from Johannesburg. Always a cagey fighter, Smuts did not crack down on the Brandwag rank & file, instead let them quit the organization while the quitting was good. He flew in a loaded bomber to the war zone in the Sudan just to show his people how near it was. This, on top of the smothering of Holland, suggested to Afrikanders that World...
That day was the 70th anniversary of the founding of the German Reich. From the ninth-floor San Francisco offices of Nazi Consul General Fritz Wiedemann, a big red, white and black swastika war flag was unfurled in tribute...
Probably no other British consul ever became as popular in Philadelphia, San Francisco and Manhattan as did ruddy Sir Gerald Campbell, whose after-dinner stories have made hundreds of prominent U. S. businessmen slap their thighs. Canny Winston Churchill, having already picked Viscount Halifax as Ambassador to the U. S., last week plucked ebullient Sir Gerald from Ottawa, where he has lately been serving as High Commissioner* for the Mother Country, and assigned him to Washington-obviously as the perfect foil to austere, pallid, pious Lord Halifax...
This week U. S. Consul Angus I. Ward arrives in Vladivostok to open...