Word: consulates
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...America ever since last year. Here too the roll of TIME'S subscribers is a most distinguished one-including the presidents of six of our sister republics and a long list of important English-reading people from the Rio Grande to the Strait of Magellan. For example, the Consul General of Peru looked through the names of our subscribers in his country and was "very much impressed with the high representation in cultural and intellectual circles as well as the large amount of big business concerns and banking institutions" appearing there...
...Grew, a young Boston-Groton-Harvard-man, crawled into a cave in China and shot a tiger just four feet in front of him. This feat so impressed Theodore Roosevelt that, although he was leary of Boston snobbery in the diplomatic service, he appointed Joe Grew clerk to the consul general in Cairo...
Shyly they told their story. They were both on convalescent leave, hitchhiking across the country to visit their parents in San Diego, Calif. They had such short leave they hadn't waited for the British consul to arrange transportation. USOers, fascinated, pressed them for details...
...York they got in touch with the British consul. The boys had taken a cattle boat to England to enlist in the R.A.F. soon after the war began. They had flown over Germany, Poland, France and Libya. One, a gunner, said he had shot down 56 enemy planes; his friend had shot down more than that. Both deprecated the idea that these were exceptional scores...
While John Lang was consul, they faced the greatest crisis in their history. Islandia was almost totally nonindustrial, but rich in natural resources. Representatives of England, France, the U.S. and (most insidiously) Germany worked with Islandia's progressives to open it to the plunderous wonders of international cooperation. As U.S. Consul, John Lang's duties were clear...