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...only did riders on the Staten Island ferry have a good look at her close up but the German consul had only to look out of his office building on Battery Place to see her riding at anchor. But many a U.S. newspaper reader heard nothing about it, for, after the Lend-Lease Act was passed, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox appealed to the U.S. press not to report the movements of British vessels putting into U.S. ports...
...sailing to the Fatherland in what appeared to be a general evacuation. One woman wrote, desperately: "Hitler has ordered our husbands who are members of the Bund to come back to Germany at once. We had to sell our insurance and take all our money to the consul, who gives us only a piece of paper. God help us, we leave our soul and life in America to go, we know not where, only to leave here before Hitler strikes at New York." Blankly, sadly the women went up the gangplank. Fortnight before, another ship, the Marques de Comillas...
...York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia was once U. S. consul at Fiume, was once official interpreter at Ellis Island, speaks eight languages. Morning after the news of Belgrade's coup d'etat, he paused in a turmoil of annual budgetmaking, announced in spotless Serbian: "Zora puca bit ce dana!" (The dawn is breaking...
...George William Rendel that he went straight upstairs to his room and began to check over personally his Legation's more important papers. Other members of the British group were signing the hotel register or chatting in the lobby when the blast went off. Said British Vice Consul C. H. Page...
...Casa Cram in Monterrey (largest manufacturing centre in Mexico) distributes hardware and tools for Armstrong Manufacturing Co., Peck, Stow & Wilcox Co., abrasives for Carborundum Co., etc. Its owner: Herr Hans Cram, the Nazi Consul...