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...used to drive the Communists crazy by talking Eskimo over the telephone on a tapped line," a first secretary who doubled as economist and "still had time to draft Voice of America broadcasts," an officer "who ran a truck to Nuremberg every two weeks for supplies," one consul, one vice-consul, one code clerk, three secretaries, and a military establishment consisting of "an Air Force colonel and an Army colonel who competed unhappily for the assistance of one sergeant...
...served briefly in Hamburg, then was sent to Cambridge University to study Russian. When the Korean war came along, Blake was a British vice-consul in Seoul. Fellow diplomats remember him as convivial, gay, and with a delight in mimicry and dressing up in fancy clothes at costume parties. Blake was grabbed with the other foreigners when the Communists moved in. The North Koreans shipped him off to a detention camp for three years. There, according to Blake's signed statement, he decided that Communism was the better system and deserved to triumph...
After working as an economic analyst for the Intelligence Department during World War II, she served from 1945 to 1946 as vice-consul to the Union of South Africa. Mrs. Hubbard, now in her second year as Holmes' house mother, said she hopes to return to Africa soon, but that her next trip would be "just for pleasure, to see all my friends there...
...Budapest, where he stopped on his return from China, the United States Vice-Consul asked him to surrender his passport, but he refused, and yesterday the Government took no further action either here or in New York...
Tinker explained that he was fed up with the spiteful, unfair criticisms that he had encountered during his two-year hitch in Canada. Canadians were forever complaining to Vice-Consul Tinker about U.S. immigration laws, completely overlooking Canada's equally strict screening of aliens. Canadian newspapers railed about the 7% U.S. tariff on Canadian lead, but never mentioned the 25% Canadian duty on U.S. cars. Tinker once heard a Canadian M.P. solemnly talk to a dinner audience about "trigger-happy" U.S. diplomats...