Word: consulation
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...Consul Lucius Mummius visited Corinth-with a Roman army. The legionaries looted the famous nightclub; they tossed the tables, dice, ivory flutes and drinking cups down the 33 wells (where Professor Broneer found them more than 2,000 years later). But the riotous spirit of Corinth survived. In 60 A.D., St. Paul reproved his little flock at Corinth (II Corinthians 12:20, 21): "For I fear," wrote St. Paul wearily, "lest, when I come . . . I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed...
...Spanish Gardener (Little, Brown; $3) comes from the medicine chest of a real M.D., British-born A. (for Archibald) J. (for Joseph) Cronin. Dr. Cronin's compound is easier to swallow only because it is smaller. The story deals with the U.S. consul in a Spanish town, a vain, possessive introvert who stands between his frail young son and a normal boyhood. When the boy becomes fond of their kindly young gardener, the jealous consul breaks up their innocent friendship by a device that leads to the gardener's death. Dr. Cronin writes better than Novelists Yerby...
...reporter for Britain's Manchester Guardian tells the story of an overcoat which was stolen from a U.S. vice consul in Pusan and which the local authorities were anxious to recover. A few days after the theft, Pusan's chief of police personally reported to the coat's owner. "All is well," said the chief, "as I am currently torturing two suspects...
British Physicist Klaus Fuchs. The FBI said Rosenberg had been an important cog in the machinery, working directly under Anatoli Yakovlev, Soviet vice consul in New York. An electrical engineer (C.C.N.Y., class of '39), Rosenberg had been an inspector for the War Department's Signal Service until early 1945, when he was fired for Communist affiliations. He broke off all open contacts with the party, quit subscribing to the Daily Worker and set up as the owner of a small, non-union machine shop in Manhattan. But the FBI kept its many eyes...
Close Call. Consider the U.S. position on Formosa after Truman's statement: the senior U.S. representative was Consul General and Chargé d'Affaires Robert Strong, a State Department career man of modest reputation. The senior military representative was an Army lieutenant colonel assisted by a staff of three other officers and barely enough enlisted men to answer phones, drive staff cars. Not one of the military men had the rank or authority to provide the liaison so urgently required with the U.S. Seventh Fleet...