by Cami Hofstadter | Oct 27, 2014 | Posted October 27, 2014
It’s a safe bet that not many people recall a consular board from the McCarthy hearings in the 50s. But when William Shirer mentions this in one of his memoirs I got curious. What could this possibly have had to do with the foreign consuls among us? The search took me...
by Cami Hofstadter | Oct 20, 2014 | Posted October 20, 2014
Consulin? Imagine being the wife of a consul and getting your own title, feminized from your husband’s position. Thomas Mann, Nobel-prize winning author of Buddenbrooks, writes about how in 19th century Luebeck, Germany, the surviving wife of a consul was...
by Cami Hofstadter | Sep 25, 2014 | Posted September 25, 2014
When President Obama referred to the “Corpsmen” (very much alive and kicking) he used the pronunciation for a dead body: “corpse” with the hard p and s (notice the e in the end). What a great teaching moment this is for all of us in education, or...
by Cami Hofstadter | Sep 21, 2014 | Posted September 21, 2014
In a recent public announcement to more than 1,500 cruise ship passengers (I was one of them) the captain spoke of the Army Corpse of Engineers so my mind immediately went to many a consular corps that’s also been called a “corpse” although it’s a living,...
by Cami Hofstadter | Aug 30, 2014 | Posted August 30, 2014
A consul can be a head of post, but not head of a diplomatic mission (= embassy). The Miami Herald should have referred to the local Haitian consul-general as head of the (consular) post, but instead used the wrong term. You sometimes even hear...
