Word: consulation
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...last week, the Vincent case had already grown so hot that the White House was reluctant just to leave him in Switzerland, a major listening-post for the meeting of East & West. Finally, the State Department hit on a slick way out. It appointed Vincent diplomatic agent and U.S. consul general at Tangier, the international territory in Morocco. Though the assignment was a comedown for a veteran of 25 years in the foreign service, Tangier is one of the few important posts where the chief of mission does not require Senate confirmation...
...grilling, begun by the chief and continued by such weird characters as a German waiter, brought in because the chief thought he spoke English, lasted all night. At 3 a.m., U.S. Consul General Kenneth Yearns appeared. At dawn, Shea and McCombe were taken to Precinct Station 7, a shabby post on the other side of town, where three burly characters steered them into separate rooms. The consul general went off for help...
Conservative M.P. Fitzroy (Escape to Adventure) MacLean asked the government about the "closing" of His Majesty's consulate at Tihwa, capital of Sinkiang, where China's far west meets Russia and India. Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Ernest Davies read from a report from H.M.'s consul general at Tihwa, George Fox Holmes...
...LONDON, Gian-Carlo Menotti got an opening-night ovation for The Consul, in contrast to the pandemonium of boos and bravos it raised at La Scala (TIME, Feb. 5). Nobody tried to drown out the singers with toy whistles or shouted "Down with America!" Said Menotti: "I still have friends in Britain...
...Scala conductor in the audience stood up and took Menotti's side. "Cretini! Stùpidi! Ignoranti!" he exploded. "You haven't even read the libretto!" Possibly some of the Commies in the audience knew all about the libretto-The Consul is bitterly antitotalitarian. Even after it was over, and cast and composer took their curtain calls, the battle raged on, with fists flying, outside...