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Sirs: I have just read in TIME. Sept. 16, your story, "Suicide of a Consul." While I know that you will be branded as unpatriotic, revealers of "unpublishable" State matters, and twisters of truth, I want to congratulate you on an excellent example of fearless reporting...
Scores of U. S. citizens in the Orient were his friends and admirers because he got them out of trouble or saved their skins. There were tales aplenty about his fellow-countrymen whom he placed under official arrest and locked up in his consulate with a bottle of Scotch while he kept the local authorities at bay, of pig-headed missionaries who were captured by bandits after ignoring warnings to seek safety and whose necks Consul Hanson saved from the executioner's sword by telling their captors, as only he knew how, ribald Chinese jokes. He was called...
...only was his local influence valuable to the State Department but, until the recognition of Soviet Russia two years ago, he was one of the best contacts the Department had with U. S. S. R. After recognition, he was named as the first U. S. Consul General at Moscow, a big job commensurate with his ability. Early this year he was in the U. S. on leave when his appointment as Consul General to Addis Ababa was announced (TIME...
...course of some good-humored remarks that U. S. businessmen need not expect to do any more business with the Soviet Union than the amount that the U. S. was prepared to extend in credit. About the same time he also attended a tea given in Manhattan by Soviet Consul General Leonid Tolokonsky...
Died. George Charles Hanson, 52. U. S. Consul General at Salonika; by his own hand (pistol); on board the President Polk en route...