Word: consulation
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...Nyerere returned to his capital of Dar es Salaam than he called in U.S. Ambassador William Leonhart and informed him that two American officials were "engaged in subversive activities" and would have to leave the country in 24 hours. One was Embassy Counselor Robert Gordon. The other was U.S. Consul in Zanzibar Frank Carlucci, a hustling, Swahili-speaking troubleshooter who had seemed to be getting on well with Nyerere (TIME...
Trouble was, the secret nonballot failed to produce a winner-which, under the U.N. charter, must receive two-thirds of the votes. A second "consul tation" was called for, and a third, but although Jordan was unofficially ahead, Mali proved unsinkable. In the end, Quaison-Sackey forged a compromise: the two nations would split the two-year term, with Jordan seated first. The deal was approved "without objection," and Quaison-Sackey dismissed the Assembly until...
Delicate Balance. If the union's two components are having trouble balancing each other, Nyerere and Karume apparently are trying hard to balance East and West. In the receiving line welcoming Nyerere, U.S. Consul General Frank Carlucci was neatly played off against East German Ambassador Guenther Fritsch. To demonstrate their nonalignment, Nyerere and Karume spoke Swahili with both the American and the East German; Carlucci answered them fluently, while Fritsch, wincing behind his sunglasses, used an interpreter...
German-descended George III may have lost the American colonies, but he brought the greatest royal acquisitions from Italy to England. Through a vendor, Joseph Smith, who wheedled a post as consul to Venice, the King's additions to the royal collection increased by batches of Canaletto. Horace Walpole scorned Smith as "the merchant of Ven ice," but that shrewd gentleman sold his purchases for some $300,000 to the King on the installment plan-with interest. George Ill's wife, Charlotte of Mecklenburg requested a sketch of Florence's Uffizi Gallery from a compatriot named Johann...
Through the mercenary auspices of such as Consul Smith, and the thousands of Englishmen who discovered Italy on the Grand Tour, the masters of Florence and Venice built the base of British taste. When the Royal Academy was founded in 1768 its president was Sir Joshua Reynolds, who canonized the images of Raphael and applied the Renaissance's grand manner to contemporary subject matter. In time, Gainsborough, Benjamin West, Turner and Constable became academicians. Royal patronage had bent the Italian Renaissance to its own visual empire, and the royal collection swelled with homegrown products. Before, Britain had only appreciated...