Word: consulates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Falangist Leader Jenaro Riestra went to Havana from Spain last week with a consul generalship for himself, a present for Cuban President Colonel Fulgencio Batista. Neither made...
University of Havana students whipped up a resolution demanding nonrecognition of the new Consul, fearing he would use his diplomatic immunity to promote Cuban fascism. Other Cubans stirred up so much trouble that police barred all visitors from the pier when the Marques de Camillas pulled in. Then shrewd Boss Batista heard his present was to be a sword from the Spanish Falangist Party and turned it down before it was even offered. Said his secretary: "He esteems it improper and inappropriate to think that a foreign political party with an ideology so contrary to that of the persons...
...Janeiro's Santos Dumont airfield one day last week, began loading up for its regular Sāo Paulo run. Up the steps walked the passengers: Cuban Minister to Brazil Alfonso Hernández Catá, Rockefeller Foundation's yellow-fever researcher Dr. Evandro Chagas, Norwegian Consul Alexander Stabell Grieg, Sebastiāo Leme Salles, nephew of Rio's Cardinal Archbishop, eleven lesser wigs. Heading into the wind, the VASP airliner roared across the field, lifted easily into a climbing turn...
...Trade Counselor Gerhardt Alois Westrick, Assistant Manhattan Consul Friedrich Ried...
...Hull brow took a deeper furrow last week. In big black type the New York Post said Dies Committee evidence showed that Friedhelm Drager, German Vice Consul in New York, is the head of a vast Nazi propaganda and espionage machine operating in the U. S. Deep and dark as an Oppenheim thriller was the story which the Post spread across its pages...