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During World War II Ashby held the Chair of Botany at Sydney University, Australia, and was chairman of the Australian National Research Council, which helped to guide the Australian government's charge d' affaires in the Australian legation and in 1947 returned to England to become professor of botany at...
* The State Department later explained that it is U.S. policy, as a rule, to deny asylum to foreigners in embassies abroad unless the person is in "imminent danger from mob violence." Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, Roman Catholic Primate of Hungary, was considered to qualify "under exceptional circumstances" when he won sanctuary...
The Missing Bishop. Yet if virtually the whole hierarchy of the church was gathered in St. Peter's square, there were notable absences. Josef Cardinal Mindszenty languished through his sixth year of asylum in an upstairs room of the U.S. legation in Budapest. No one came from Red China...
The Counterfeit Traitor (Paramount). Oil, the Swedes remarked sadly in the fall of 1942, is thicker than blood. They were speaking of Eric Erickson, an American who came to Sweden in the '20s, did well in the oil business, took out Swedish citizenship. Then came the war. Erickson, like...
In a routine check on his paper's list of 8,000 mail subscribers, McMahon came upon three curious names. One was Captain Imre Mozsik, assistant military and air attache at the Hungarian legation in Washington. The other two also had addresses in the nation's capital: K...