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...unhappy M. Avenol winced at this shrewd Chinese sting, zzzz came the Japanese League hornet, Consul General Matsayuki Yokoyama, to sting him on the other flank because he had said that Japan no longer has any League "rights." Agreeing that she has no "obligations" Mr. Yokoyama loudly demanded for Japan well-nigh every privilege she has ever enjoyed at Geneva, except actual membership in the Assembly and Council...
...Helen Iversen Dixon for identifying her father in one of his rare photographs and for supplying an authentic description of his speech. The man at the centre of the Pittsburgh University Club party, whom TIME erroneously labeled as the president of Mesta Machine Co., was Jerzy Matusinski, then Polish Consul at Pittsburgh, now Consul General in Manhattan. Last week President Iversen reported that his company earned $1,517,250 last year from making steel machines, promised stockholders a full capacity year...
...girls were Elizabeth and Jane du Bois, only children of Coert du Bois, U. S. Consul General at Naples. Jane, 20, dominated her 23-year old sister. Both were sensitive, high-strung. Few weeks before, they had become very much attached to two British Royal Air Force officers who had been delayed at Naples on a flight to Singapore. One of the officers planned to break his engagement to a Bedfordshire dancing instructress to marry Jane. The other officer had an "understanding" with Elizabeth. Few hours after the officers left Naples they crashed in Sicily, died in flames...
...Moscow as Consul General went George Hanson when U. S. recognition of Russia promised to open up vast trade possibilities. Three weeks ago that glittering bubble burst (TIME,, Feb. 11). Following week, as a diplomatic suggestion that Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff had played him false, President Roosevelt pared the staff of the U. S. Embassy in Moscow, closed the Consulate...
...George Hanson was not to be long out of a job. Last week, while home on leave in Bridgeport, he was assigned as Consul General and Charge d'Affaires to be the ranking U. S. diplomat in Addis-Ababa, capital of Abyssinia. Informed observers interpreted the assignment not as a reward to George Hanson but as assurance that the State Department was deeply concerned with the promise of trouble between Italy and Abyssinia (see p. 18), wanted one of its best hands on deck...