Word: consulates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they presented their demands to Balaguer, the Trujillo brothers found themselves surrounded by pro-Balaguer Cabinet officers and army men. U.S. Consul John Calvin Hill Jr. strolled in, joining Balaguer and the brothers. As if helpless in such a situation, Balaguer shrugged his shoulders, told the Trujillos that "if you don't leave, they'll invade us." Consul Hill joined in: "That's absolutely the best thing." Arismendi conferred alone with Balaguer another 20 minutes, then picked up the phone, dialed his wife and told her to "pack and get ready...
...downtown Damascus, Syria was calm. After Gamal Abdel Nasser had resigned himself to Syria's breakaway from the United Arab Republic ("May Allah help beloved Syria"), the world's nations hastened to welcome the newly independent state. In a blaze of flashbulbs and official smiles, U.S. Consul General Ridgway B. Knight drove up to the rose-walled Foreign Office in Damascus last week and presented a note extending formal recognition. Three days earlier, the new regime, coolly and without publicity, accepted Soviet recognition. Said one longtime Western observer: "This is the most pro-Western government Syria...
...mind. He refused to go to Leopoldville to take up his job. Instead, he formed a new National Patrice Lumumba Party and began orating against the U.N. ("hostile to the Congo"). Last week his soldiers, apparently feeling that it is open season on all Western whites, roughed up U.S. Consul Thomas A. Cassilly. All the U.N. could think of was to airlift 350 Ethiopian troops to Stanleyville to reinforce the U.N. force of 450 already there...
...boys are $18,000 ahead-but the admiral (Dean Jagger) has noticed signals flashing from MAX's ship and concludes from the Morse that the Russians are attacking. Whereupon: somebody drinks a quart of bourbon and walks a window ledge. Somebody says, "Follow that gondola." The Russian consul pounds a table with his shoe. Somebody falls into a canal. Somebody proposes marriage. Somebody eats a mothball...
Front Seat. When Macmillan elevated Home from Commonwealth Relations to the Foreign Office last July, the Laborite Daily Mirror called it "the most reckless political appointment since the Roman Emperor Caligula made his favorite horse a consul." Home admitted wistfully that "one would have to have the hide of a rhinoceros not to be affected by the criticism." But he defended his apprenticeship for the job. "After all, for five years it was my job to explain foreign policy to the Commonwealth." Officials used to his rather dour predecessor, Selwyn Lloyd, were charmed by Home's wit and informality...