North Winship (1885–1968) was a career

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who served first as

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to South Africa, starting in 1948 before being promoted to

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on March 23, 1949 (commissioned to the

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). Winship also served as a Consul General in

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and

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. As a result of an accord reached in 1987, the “Soviet Government has returned to the National Archives a potpourri of 73-year-old records from the American consulate in Petrograd. The files have 6,250 thin crackling sheets bound with red-white-and-blue twine, containing items like inventories of vodka shipments and coded telegrams about ships carrying military supplies to Murmansk.” The archives cover the time when “Petrograd, which was then the capital, between the

February Revolution The February Revolution ( rus, Февра́льская револю́ция, r=Fevral'skaya revolyutsiya, p=fʲɪvˈralʲskəjə rʲɪvɐˈlʲutsɨjə), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and somet ...

, which ousted the imperial family, and the November Revolution, which brought the Bolsheviks to power. The most interesting dispatches, reConsul North Winship's accounts of the upheavals in Petrograd.”

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1885 births 1968 deaths Ambassadors of the United States to South Africa American consuls {{US-diplomat-stub