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Word: tienstin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1927-1927
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Indeed the diplomatic career of Paul Claudel is totally anomalous. Who has heard before of a mystic-Vice Consul (New York, 1893; Boston, 1894), of a poet- Consul (Shanghai, Foochow, Tienstin, Prague, Frankfort-On-Main and Hamburg until 1914), finally who ever heard of an active play-wright† as Minister to Brazil (1916), to Denmark (1919) and finally Ambassador to Japan since 1921? The man is a reductio ad paradoxa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Beautiful Hole | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

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