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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...death of Consul Taggart while serving at his post emphasizes that life in the Foreign Service often entails sacrifice even unto death. Since the earliest days of our national existence many Foreign Service officers have died under tragic or heroic circumstances. The first of these was William Palfrey of Massachusetts, who in 1780 was appointed 'Consul to reside in France.' He sailed for his post on the Shillala, an armed ship of 16 guns. The vessel was never heard from after it passed the Delaware Capes...
Minister's home. Baron Shidehara announced that Japanese troops would be withdrawn from the captured Manchurian cities "at the earliest possible moment...
...refers to "a legend that a Mr. Astor, a cattle merchant, fed his stock great quantities of water just before he drove them to market. . . . His 'watered stock' made him rich." The trickster was the late unctuous, sniveling Daniel Drew, the cattle-watering one of the simplest and earliest of his many business rogueries...
...There was no adjournment. I was called before the Stewards and gave my explanation. I waited and later Lord Lonsdale came out and told me that my explanation was quite satisfactory, and that it would be given to the Press at the earliest possible moment...
British and U. S. efforts to aid Germany did not end with the end of the conference. Much-traveled Mr. Stimson was off again on an "unofficial" visit to Berlin. Scot MacDonald and British Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson promised to follow him at the earliest opportunity...