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...high republic of Ecuador last week was the stage for an increasingly familiar scene. In a handful of cities, mobs dragged the U.S. flag through the streets, stoned U.S.-Ecuadorian "friendship centers," set afire a U.S. consul's car. In Quito, the American embassy was stoned, and 20,000 demonstrators, chanting "Cuba, Rusia y E-cua-dor," marched to a rabble-rousing pep rally led by President José Maria Velasco Ibarra and his pro-Communist Interior Minister Manuel...
...years old. On demand, he must give his present monthly income, the amount of cash deposited in banks and an estimate of the value of his other assets. Said a British applicant: "It made me feel like a refugee from Dragnet." In defense of the system a U.S. consul in The Netherlands said, "If we abolished the visa tomorrow, 20,000 Filipinos and 20,000 Italians would travel to the U.S. without a penny in their pockets...
Cash & Good Will. Consul Emmett M. Coxson was so impressed by Kayira's "journey of unbelievable hardship" that he quickly wrote Skagit for aid. While the boy spent hours in the U.S.I.S. library boning up on algebra, Skagit's students raised more than $1,100 to guarantee clothing and round-trip fare. Schoolteacher William Atwood, father of seven, offered a free home at the Atwoods' roomy farmhouse in nearby Bayview. Mrs. Atwood quashed the only unpleasantness in the entire affair. Huffed one neighbor: "What if he wants to take your daughter to a dance?" Replied Mrs. Atwood...
Swimming Spy. The vice consul was not a diplomat, and his name was not really Morimura. He was Takeo Yoshikawa, former ensign in the Japanese Imperial Navy, who had been sent to Honolulu in April 1941 on espionage duty. Now, 19 years after Pearl Harbor, writing in the authoritative United States Naval Institute Proceedings, Yoshikawa details his role as Japan's eyes and ears in the days before Pearl Harbor...
Sunday Rainstorm. While Yoshikawa did not know the date of "X-Day," he did know that it was rapidly approaching. Near the end of November, a Lieut. Commander Suguru Suzuki arrived in Honolulu disguised as a ship's steward. He called on Consul General Nagao Kita, and, "in the course of their conversation, slipped a tiny ball of crumpled rice paper into Kita's hand." The list contained 97 questions. The key question, promptly referred to Yoshikawa: "On what day of the week would the most ships be in Pearl Harbor on normal occasions?" Yoshikawa's reply...