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When he resigned as U.S. vice-consul in Toronto last fall, Frank Tinker bade Canada an unfond farewell. "I'm leaving Canada and I'm glad," Tinker wrote in a blunt article in Maclean's magazine. "It's going to be a great relief...
Finally, fully a year after his original application, the Liverpool consul summoned him for an interview. During the questioning, he was asked about an appearance before the Free German League of Culture. According to Bruce: "'During the conversation on this subject,' the professor says, 'the vice-consul expressed uneasiness when I said that, while I had no idea that the (League) was a Communist organization, I would still have addressed them if I had known it. It appears that in his view, trying to convert them would have been a subversive activity!'" Polyani's speech before the group was severely...
...David K. E. Bruce, 55, banker and diplomat, to be special U.S. observer with the Interim Committee of the European Defense Community. Baltimore-born, Princeton-trained Dave Bruce has mixed law practice (1921-26), banking and private business (1928-40) with Government service: he was a vice-consul in Rome in the '20s, Assistant Secretary of Commerce in 1947-48, chief of the ECA in France in 1948-49, then became in turn Ambassador to France and Under Secretary of State in Washington...
After months of pleading for a hearing, Polanyi finally saw the U. S. vice-consul in Liverpool. Later Polanyi claimed that the consul had not read a page of his writings...
Also present at the ceremonies was John Dawson, vice-consul for Great Britain, as well as representatives of Ireland and Northern Ireland, who will jointly own the telescope...