Word: consulates
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...party took place at the British consul general's house in Boston. Moving through the reception, Jacqueline Kennedy welcomed the first ten British graduate students awarded scholarships by Britain's Kennedy Memorial Fund, established after the President's death to send Britons to the U.S. for research and travel. Never far from the side of her brothers-in-law Bobby and Teddy, Jackie said little, although she was especially pleased to see Lord Harlech, formerly Sir David Ormsby Gore, the British Ambassador to the U.S. during the Kennedy Administration. After the party, Jackie invited the students...
...General Bedell Smith's staff in North Africa, Colonel Briggs helped arrange the Casablanca conference. She was lent to the State Department for a London assignment after the war, went on to Moscow as part of Ambassador Bedell Smith's staff, and in 1948 was appointed vice consul in Belgrade. After sending her to school for four years to become a Russian specialist, the Army put her in the Pentagon as chief of its Eastern European branch of intelligence; in 1961 she was sent to France as chief of the Armed Forces Soviet intelligence section...
...Reischauer was U. (for Ural)* Alexis Johnson, 57, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and him self an old Asia hand. Also fluent in Japanese, Kansas-born Johnson started his career as an embassy language officer in Tokyo in 1935; on Pearl Harbor Day, as a vice consul in Japanese-controlled Manchuria, he was interned. Exchanged in 1942, he later joined General Douglas MacArthur's Tokyo staff. More recently, Johnson was deputy ambassador in Saigon before returning to Washington last year...
Sighed the U.S. vice consul in charge: "There's simply nothing we can do on French holidays...
Back in Beira the Ioanna V, which had switched from Greek to Panamanian registration in mid-voyage, was boarded by the Panamanian consul, who informed the captain that the ship's Panamanian registration had been withdrawn, leaving the Ioanna V a ship without a country. Later, the Beira port captain placed the tanker and its 18,000 tons of oil under Portuguese control, which could mean that either Portugal was honoring the embargo by impounding the ship or simply making it easier to unload the oil. Whichever the case, the British intend to see to it that the Ioanna...