Word: consulation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only does he speak English, with an American accent, he plays golf and smokes Camels. He has a town house in Batavia and a country house not far away, where he and his charming Dutch wife often entertain visiting diplomats and journalists. Among their close friends are U.S. Consul General Walter A. Foote and his wife...
There was many an awkward delay before the U.S.S. West Point finally got away. In San Francisco, 2,570 miles away, debonair Consul General Captain Fritz Wiedemann and Dr. Johannes Borchers, German consul general in New York City, with an entourage of 14 people, had had to cancel their passage on a Japanese liner sailing two days before the President's deadline expired on July 15. The British safe conduct to Japan had arrived too late. Captain Wiedemann talked to Washington and Berlin. Then he chartered three planes, stowed his party and their luggage aboard, and sped eastward. Said...
During the 33-day war the Vichy forces suffered some 9,000 casualties, the Allies some 1,500. Most of these casualties could have been avoided. In mid-June, before the fall of Damascus, Vichy armistice feelers were issued to the Allies through U.S. Consul General Cornelius Engert in Beirut. Next day the British replied, offering generous terms, but the Nazis put pressure on Vichy, and the futile fighting continued nearly another month...
...gaunt, grimy London suburb last week George Johnson Armstrong died by hanging, the first Briton executed as a traitor in World War II. A 39-year-old ship's engineer, he was charged with offering his services as a spy to the German Consul in Boston. With him were hung three alien spies. Another Briton, a woman, sentenced to hang at the same time, had her sentence commuted to 14 years imprisonment...
...killed while onlooking. An automobile careened down the street, its occupants firing into the crowd. Down went 17-year-old Walter Medina, shouting: "Viva la Democracies!" Three days later the police announced that three men had confessed to the killing of Teacher Morales. One of them was Italian Vice Consul Andres Musciani...