Word: consulates
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...elevated brute was the Dey of Algiers and the man who asked this stictly rhetorical quextion was William Eaton, first U.S. Consul to Tunis. Rarely in history has any man been so frustrated as that tempestuous, square-jawed young New Englander...
...Consul Eaton, soon disgusted by the greed and eternal haggling of the Tripolitan Pasha, decided that appeasment did not pay. Instead he set up a howl for naval action. If he had his way, he stormed, the U.S. would fit out a fleet, sink every corsair on sight and "let the Pashas wreak their vengeance on the consuls- if they pleased, eat them...
...Francisco last week Gump's, the art dealers who sold the seal to Seattle's Museum in 1935, had forgotten where they acquired it. But if it is truly the lost seal (as Chinese Consul Kiang Yi-seng and the Museum's Director, Dr. Richard E. Fuller, believe it to be because of the references to Hsien Feng deciphered from its characters), chances are that it came to the U.S. some time after the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. During that chaotic period hoodlums and allied soldiers had ample opportunity to plunder the fabulous riches...
...entry into Paris, General Ike received the Cross of Liberation from General Charles de Gaulle. Then, saluting from an open car, he was driven between roaring thousands down the Champs-Elysees. To his collection of precious souvenirs, France added a gold-hiked sword which Napoleon had worn as First Consul, a gold cigaret case encrusted with five sapphire stars...
Died. Lindsay Crawford, 76, rough & tumble Irish editor, first Irish Free State consul in the U.S.; in Manhattan. President of the Self-Determination League of Ireland, Canada and Newfoundland, Protestant Irishman Crawford stumped so explosively for total Irish independence that he was once pelted with snow and ice by a Canadian crowd, once drowned out by an irate audience's bawling God Save the King...