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...Consul in charge of any relations which Luxembourg may have in seven Far Western States, Alaska and Hawaii is one Prosper Reiter. Last month Sheriff E. W. Biscailuz of Los Angeles County, Calif., said his vice squad visited the white, rambling Reiter residence and office near Hollywood. The Sheriff subsequently complained to Attorney General Earl Warren of California that the place was "an alleged gambling establishment," added that diplomatic immunity protected Prosper Reiter and prevented his arrest so long as he stayed in the consulate. "If the evidence warrants my doing so," continued Sheriff Biscailuz, "I am going...
...London the British Government formally announced that not only would the four alleged puppet-killers in Tientsin be handed over, but also a fifth man, previously unmentioned. The British proudly stated that the fifth man had been surrendered only with the proviso that the British Consul General could occasionally go and look at him to make sure that he was not being tortured...
...Swatow, the Japanese Consulate angrily demanded that British Consul H. D. Bryan "admit that British sailors [from the destroyer Tenedos] were involved in a riot" in which a Chinese was wounded, apologize, punish the sailors, guarantee that it would not happen again. The "riot" was a crowd of Chinese unenthusiastically shouting anti-British slogans and throwing stones at the British Consulate. Great Britain apologized...
...Captain Martin the friendship between Widow Dargie and her publisher cooled. Anonymous letters reached the U. S. Department of Labor urging his expulsion. Joe Knowland went to Washington. In 1927, and again in 1928, Captain Martin left the U. S. When he returned he had an appointment as vice-consul for San Leandro (a suburb of Oakland). He painted the Spanish coat-of-arms on the side of Mrs. Dargie's automobile, stuck a Spanish flag in the radiator...
Soon after their marriage Count Ciano & wife were packed off to China, where he was first Consul General at Shanghai, then Minister to China. Recalled to Italy in 1933, he became Under Secretary of State, then Minister for Press & Propaganda, and it began to appear that Edda, the apple of Il Duce's eye, could get for Husband Galeazzo just about any job she wished...