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Died. Henry Booth Hitchcock, 45, U. S. Consul in Nagasaki, survivor of the 1932 bombing & burning of Nagasaki's U. S. Consulate; after an operation; in Yokohama, Japan...
...Malaya as a rubber planter. There he was defeated by the fever and soon sought new vigor in the Canadian Rockies. Refreshed by his stay in North America, he returned to London where he passed a civil service examination which led to his appointment as his Majesty's vice-consul at Moscow. This was Indeed a minor post in tranquil 1912. Today the author recalls how pleasing Russia was to him with its carefree days when many a morning he saw the dawn break over the old Kremlin after a gay night in Moscow. His happy-go-lucky spirit...
Died. Raymond Davis, 49, U. S. Consul at Prague, Czechoslovakia; by diving from a hotel staircase onto a marble table near which his wife sat; in Prague...
...have been in such personal and political scrapes as Bruce Lockhart, one-time (1915-17) British consul-general at Moscow, have admitted them in writing. With a canny candor that makes his book exciting reading, that is just what Author Lockhart does. Women and Bolsheviks were his trouble: between the two he has had some narrow escapes...
...that scrape, sent him home to his outraged family. For lack of something better to do he took the examinations for the Foreign Office and passed at the head of the list, much to his surprise. In 1912 he was sent to Moscow as British vice-consul. He liked and got on well with Russia, Russian and Russians, had a high old time in Moscow, saw many a dawn break over the Kremlin. When he married an Australian girl he turned over a new leaf-for a while. Then rumors of his goings-on with a Russian Jewess reached...