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George Strausser Messersmith was U.S. consul general in Berlin when Hermann Goring paid him a call one day. Hitler's No. 2 man was in his usual arrogant mood. He swept his hand over a map of South America. There was one of Germany's spheres of influence, he boasted, and began pounding the table. Messersmith stopped him. "This is my house," Messersmith said coldly. "No one pounds the table here but me. If there is any pounding done, I will...
Some Argentines will remember Messersmith-he was consul general in Buenos Aires in 1928. They will remember a stubby man with a cocky gait, invariably armed with a cane and wearing a flower in the buttonhole of his well-draped coat. Other foreign embassies around the world remember him for his unbending ways and a cold manner punctuated by discreet belches; he is dyspeptic...
Copperfield at 40. "Success," observed Nathaniel Hawthorne, from his vantage point as American consul in Liverpool, "makes an Englishman intolerable, [but] an Englishman in adversity is a very respectable character." When successful Charles Dickens looked back on the adversities of his childhood, he found them too painful to disclose even to his wife: not until he was almost 40 could he bear to relive them, and to cast them from him into David Copperfield. Father John Dickens, the original of Micawber-"a jovial opportunist . . . who borrowed from anyone foolish enough to make him cash advances"-took twelve-year-old Charles...
...BONILLA Consul General of Costa Rica New York City
Oldtime traders found it hard to believe that Hunt had sold out. In 20 years of eager-beaver business, first as vice consul, then as U.S. shipping board agent, finally as head of Hunt & Co., Bill Hunt had put his monogram on a sizable hunk of the Celestial Kingdom. Through Hunt & Co. he had exclusive distribution rights to 250 key products manufactured by 70-odd U.S. firms, had sold motors, electric trolleys, machine tools, steel buildings with a careful hand. Tirelessly the Hunt fingers had probed every phase of Chinese commercial life, often turned up in a competitor...