Word: consulation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...creed: "Every German state should be given veto power like that in the U.N." One C.S.U. leader has remarked: "A separatist's happiest dream is somebody to be named Bavarian ambassador in Bern, but the truth is none of them has brains enough to be a vice consul in Venezuela...
What happened after that, she implied, was partly the fault of the U.S. itself. She described being called to the U.S. Embassy in the spring of 1941; there a "gruff and uncivil" vice consul "snatched" her passport away from her and refused to give if back. She was still so loyal to her country that she "went all to pieces" when she learned of Pearl Harbor. But when she was asked to sign an oath of allegiance to Germany she did so. "It is obvious," she said, with a shrug, "that one has to live, somehow...
...consular and diplomatic officials in Washington, New York and Cleveland resigned in protest against the Mindszenty trial. Catholic pickets, carrying signs denouncing Communist Hungary, knelt in New York's City Hall plaza, holding their rosaries in pleading gesture. A delegation of demonstrators called on Bela Belassa, acting Hungarian consul general in New York. They were surprised when he said: "I agree with your protests. I am resigning as of this moment." Mrs. Belassa explained: "My husband has been living in torment . . . The hills of Buda and across the river the plains of Pest; surely we will miss them...
Beans & Rice. The refugees had found no welcome in Cuba, where aliens (except for a few technicians) are not allowed to work, and naturalization takes five years. Unable to leave or support themselves, they wrote frantic letters to friends and relatives in the U.S., besieged the U.S. consul for a place on the quota (the best they can hope for is a five years' wait), entered into hundreds of deals for spurious visas and fake Cuban citizenship papers. They moved from one shoddy rooming house to another, ate black beans and rice at corner kiosks and fly-ridden restaurants...
...town of Borculo knows anyone in Warren, Ark. personally. Nevertheless, last month the farmers, laborers, and shopkeepers of Borculo felt a sudden close kinship with the citizens of Warren. Fat, jolly Burgomaster Paul Drost had just told them what he had heard from his friend Cnoop Koopmans, the Dutch consul general in New York. Warren, Koopmans wrote, had just been struck low by a tornado (TIME, Jan. 17). In Borculo there was scarcely an adult who did not remember vividly the time his town had met the same fate...