Word: consulation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disagreeable diplomatic incident has been turned by the State Department into an occasion for cementing the friendship between the United States and Persia. The murder of Vice-Consul Imbrie for photographing a native shrine has been atoned for by the execution of the malefactors and by the payment of an indemnity to Mr. Imbrie's widow; the additional indemnity, to recompense the United States government for sending a warship to bring home his remains, it is planned, will be devoted to the education of Persian students in American universities...
Died. Harold M. Sewall, 64, Republican National Committeeman from Maine, father-in-law of Senator Edge of New Jersey, onetime Consul General at Samoa, quondam Minister to Hawaii; in Manhattan, after a minor operation...
Persians had expected something to happen and happen it did. Ever since the murder of Major Robert W. Imbrie, U. S. Vice Consul at Teheran, Persian capital (TIME, July 28), . the populace had been filled with fearful forebodings. The murder, which was called by the Setareh Iran, Teheran journal, a "bloody stain on a page of glorious history," was responsible, apart from its international complexion, for a proclamation of martial law, the resignations of Premier Reza Khan's colleagues, a plethora of arrests. Persians knew someone must die for a foul crime...
...Having incited the mob to kill Vice Consul Imbrie; having disregarded the orders of Second Lieutenant Mustafa Khan and the noncommissioned officer, Mohammed Ali Khan, who three times ordered him to desist and pulled him out of the mob, and having nevertheless persisted in attacking...
...This amount," said the U. S. State Department in Washington, "is the sum fixed by this Government for payment by the Persian Government to Mrs. Imbrie as reparation for the loss sustained by the death of the late Vice Consul Robert W. Imbrie...