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...battles with boycotts. Fortnight ago U. S. Department of Commerce breakdowns of 1938 foreign trade figures measured the boycotts' success. Last week, to stimulate revival of trade, Germany set up a German-American Chamber of Commerce of the Pacific Coast in San Francisco; and in Chicago the German Consul General for the Midwest revealed he was trying to barter German machinery, harmonicas, barbed wire for several hundred thousand tons of U. S. lard...
Adolf Hitler's Man Friday, big, burly, 47-year-old Captain Fritz Wiedemann, who has carried out many a delicate mission in Europe as the Fiihrer's personal adjutant, was last week assigned to another. He will serve as Consul General at San Francisco, replacing the unpopular Baron Manfred von Killinger, recalled to the Reich to report on the bombing of a Nazi freighter in Oakland Estuary two months ago. Captain Wiedemann's mission: to smooth ruffled U. S.-German relations and sell the Nazi regime to an unsympathetic...
...Russian visa, flew into Russia without a permit, was jailed. Last fortnight he was let off with a fine of 1,500 rubles ($300), allowed to take his wife to England. The second marriage ceremony was necessary because the first was not recorded by a British consul...
Married to Michael shortly before he sailed in 1913 to become British vice consul at Baltimore, she suddenly gave her motto a new focus. From then on she resisted her Protestant upbringing and Michael. It is this part of the story which is enough to scare male readers about literate wives and mistresses-a recital of love affairs, bedroom lyricism, plate throwing, tongue lashings, a self-righteous exposure of everything from Michael's lack of ambition to his dirty hairbrushes...
...vice consul was deeply embarrassed. He said he had no idea where all this material came from, claimed that servants of the consulate had done his bag-packing. Mr. Goodman's explanation was accepted at face value but, with the full approval of the British Foreign Office, Rightist police immediately began questioning servants, secretaries and messengers of a half-dozen British consulates in Rightist Spain. If they found the person who had tried to use Vice Consul Goodman as a pigeon to carry military secrets to the other side, they failed to announce it. But a general spy hunt...