Word: consulation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army, in brief, had no effective fighting strength in Puerto Rico. Nobody in San Juan knew this better than did Germany's alert, inquisitive Consul Henry Freese. All he had to do to find out, if he was in any doubt, was to glance at published pictures of the farewell review staged for General Daley in March. One shot showed a battalion at Fort Buchanan, having no rifles, parading with swagger sticks...
...years. When he was 19, a State Department clerk at $900 a year, Elihu Root had just become Secretary of State, John Hay's Open Door in China was a reality, and the Russo-Japanese war had made Japan a world power. When young Gauss became deputy consul general at Shanghai in 1907, Teddy Roosevelt was sending the U.S. Fleet round the world in a mighty demonstration of U.S. strength...
...years Gauss served in China. Hard-boiled and short-spoken, he was not overpopular with U.S. citizens in Shanghai, where he was consul general-but he got things done. Working with Admiral Yarnell when the Japanese poured into Shanghai, he was known as a man who would not backtrack before the Japanese. When he emerged from his conferences over the administration of the International Settlement, attaches would pass word around that the consul general had won his point: "Gauss is boss...
...only did riders on the Staten Island ferry have a good look at her close up but the German consul had only to look out of his office building on Battery Place to see her riding at anchor. But many a U.S. newspaper reader heard nothing about it, for, after the Lend-Lease Act was passed, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox appealed to the U.S. press not to report the movements of British vessels putting into U.S. ports...
...Guayaquil, Ecuador, a few hours after German Vice Consul Juan Ruperti had visited the German steamer Cerigo, an Ecuadorian boarding party tried to seize her. Arson beat them...