Word: consulates
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First of the series of evening stage presentations was Gian-Carlo Menotti's opera "The Consul," given four times. Menotti's best work, though musically uneven, it ranks with Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" and Copland's "The Tender Land" as one of the three finest operas to come out of this country. "The Consul" demonstrates an unerring sense of theatre in its almost unrelievedly anguished tale of Magda Sorel's attempt to get out of a bureaucratic country crawling with secret police, and its tragic results--a timely story in view of recent events in Hungary...
...Bohlen: Llewellyn E. Thompson, 52, Ambassador and High Commissioner to Austria since 1952. For longtime (26 years) Career Diplomat "Tommy" Thompson (who, like Bohlen, worked for Ike as Russian interpreter at the 1955 Geneva summit talks) the shift will be a second Moscow assignment; he was second secretary and consul of the Moscow embassy 1940-44, won a Medal of Freedom for staying on "at the risk of capture" by the invading Nazis after the rest of the diplomatic corps was evacuated to Kuibyshev. Last year Colorado-born Ambassador Thompson won a citation from Ike for his "firmness, patience, negotiating...
...Department since 1952. Foreign Service Officer McConaughy has seen his share of lights going out in Asia: in 1941, while serving in the U.S. embassy in Peking, he was interned by the Japanese, released the following year. After a swing through Latin America he returned to China as U.S. consul in Shanghai, closed down the post in 1950 after the Communists had moved in. Principal current aim and ambition: to keep the lights burning brightly in Burma...
After working as an economic analyst for the Intelligence Department during World War II, she served from 1945 to 1946 as vice-consul to the Union of South Africa. Mrs. Hubbard, now in her second year as Holmes' house mother, said she hopes to return to Africa soon, but that her next trip would be "just for pleasure, to see all my friends there...