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...howling mob shoots a U. S. consul abroad, the U. S. Press takes lively notice of his death as a diplomatic "incident." Otherwise the decease of consuls at their posts rarely makes more than a stickful of home news. Last week, however, many a full-length obituary was devoted to the U. S. consul in Salonika, not because he died by his own hand as he was being invalided home but because he was George C. Hanson. Yet few of the news stories even hinted at the facts behind George Hanson's suicide...
...almost to nil, Mr. Bullitt being left alone with three officers. The Counselor of Embassy, professional brains of any diplomatic mission in which the chief is noncareer, has been Mr. Bullitt's good friend John Wiley who last week was transferred to Antwerp to be the U. S. Consul General...
...Days of Ignorance," it is an exhaustive 500-page picture of upper-class Europe in the decades before the War, with particular emphasis on those forces within society that were even then laying the ground for conflict. The emotional life of Julian Bern, precociously intelligent son of an English consul in Italy, began with a love affair with Zena, a Russian princess, whose noble family, perverse, gifted, incredibly wealthy, gave evidence of the fatal decadence of Russian rulers. One of Zena's aunts, under the influence of religious charlatans who were then dominant at the Russian court, wanted...
...first day of the conference 46 Japanese and 76 U. S. and Canadian students met in the Reed College chapel, squirmed in the pews while the speakers talked of nothing but war. Japanese Consul Ken Tsurumi tried to strike an optimistic note: "I do not consider a U. S.-Japanese war inevitable." Glad when the assembly was over, the Japanese delegates wanted first to see the unemployed. Back on the campus they settled down to talk of foreign trade, Manchuria, Communism, dictatorship, missionaries...
...Hints that the masseur's name began with K. brought a rash of "Mr. K." headlines. A cable from Berlin, based on reports by Germany's Consul in Manhattan, revealed him as Herr Paul Kress who has taken out his first and applied for his second U. S. naturalization papers...