Our consuls rose to the crisis and rounded them up, supplied them with funds, special trains, and letters of identification, and when they were arrested rescued them from jail.
Under fire from shells and during days of bombardment the American consuls in France and Belgium remained at their posts and protected the people of many nationalities confided to their care.

Only one showed the white feather.

He first removed himself from his post, and then was removed still farther from it by the State Department.

All the other American consuls of whom I heard in Belgium, France, and England were covering themselves with glory and bringing credit to their country.

Nothing disturbed their calm, and at no hour could you catch them idle or reluctant to help a fellow countryman.