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...Consul in Geneva and third woman in the Foreign Service, the President appointed Margaret M. Hanna, 41 years a clerk and minor official in the State Department. Secretary Hull was still playing chess with his Department. Having recently consolidated his Eastern and Western European Divisions into one Division of European Affairs, he called in as new chief, J. Pierrepont Moffat, son-in-law of Ambassador to Japan Joseph Clark Grew, from his Consulate at Sydney. For James Clement Dunn was created an important new post, adviser on political relations...
...kept on toward California. They almost reached Mexico, turned back north. For four hours no one knew where they were. Finally they found a hole in the fog near San Jacinto, landed skilfully in a cow pasture, handed out cards bearing the words "Eat," "Bath," "Sleep." The Soviet consul arrived, jabbered in hearty Russian to the flyers while they splashed in a shower at March Field. They telephoned the Soviet Embassy in Washington, cabled proudly to Moscow, wolfed a breakfast of ham & eggs, went shopping. They had made the longest non-stop flight in history...
Miss Boland had been visited by His Majesty's Vice Consul John Innes who assured her that so long as she retained and exhibited her British passport she would be safe. Just before Bilbao fell, retreating Anarchists accused Miss Boland of having packed her bags, explaining that this was a sign of Rightist sympathies and that they were finishing off all such "traitors." She showed them her British passport. Tearing it up before her eyes, they proceeded to slay Governess Boland, a crime to which numerous Spanish witnesses testified...
Early in April Los Angeles' German Consul George Gyssling warned 20 of the cast of The Road Back of possible blacklisting in Germany, where Exile Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front was long ago banned by Propaganda Minister Goebbels. In response to an inquiry submitted by the U. S. State Department, the German Ambassador in Washington last week hushed Consul Gyssling...
...will serve as Best Man. The fact that Sir Walter is a rich man with an important private practice and that Fruity Metcalfe has retired from the Army did not spoil the popularity of the gesture. Later the Counselor of the British Embassy at Paris and the British Consul at Nantes were allowed to accept on the excuse that witnessing the wedding was part of their official duties...