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BAHAMAS COUNTRY READER TABLE of CONTENTS Maynard BAHAMAS COUNTRY READER TABLE OF CONTENTS Maynard Wayne Glitman 1959-1961 Vice Consul, Nassau Moncrieff J. S ear 1970-1973 Consul General, Nassau Ronald I S iers 1973-1974 Ambassador, )ahamas Keith ,. Waucho e 1973-1974 Des. Officer for 0aiti, the )ahamas, Netherland Antilles 1 2rench West Indies, Washington, DC Ro4anne ,. Ridgway 1973-1975 De uty Chief of Mission, Nassau William ). Schwart4, Jr. 1977-1980 Ambassador, )ahamas Andrew 2. Anti as 1981-1983 De uty Chief of Mission, Nassau Cecil S. Richardson 1983 Chief Consular Officer, Nassau MAYNARD WAYNE GLITMAN Vice Consul Nassau ( 959- 96 ) Ambassador Maynard Wayne Glitman was born in Illinois in 1933. He received his BA from the University of Illinois and his MA from Fletcher School of Law and diplomacy MA, and served in the U.S. Army in 1957. His postings abroad include Nassau, Ottawa, Paris, Brussels, Geneva and ,ienna, and served as the ambassador to Belgium. James S. Pacy interviewed the ambassador on April .4, .001 12 Afterward, you wor3ed in the International Financial Affairs Office in 1958 and then in 1959 you went off as ,ice5Consul at the Consulate General in Nassau, in the Bahamas. Could you tal3 to us about problems in protection US citi7ens and your ma8or accomplishments personally and whatever else you may wish to comment on, such as supervisors9 G,ITMAN8 We had a relatively small posting in Nassau. We had three officers8 consul general, consul and vice-consul, myself at this point. )en 0ouc. was the Consul and at first, Roger Tyler, then Gus )arnard served as Consul Generals. )en had a very good bedside manner with visa a licants and so on and I learned a lot from watching him deal with these cases. Then there was a lot of protection and welfare. Cruise shi s would come over every wee.end from 2lorida and almost it seemed every wee.end I would get a phone call on Sunday morning. I would pic. u the phone and say, :Yes, Mr. Kem , what do we have for today?“ Mr. Kem was the underta.er. I am probably exaggerating in my memory but it seemed there were a number of times when he would call, almost all these on Sundays. I would have to go and ma.e sure that the next of .in were notified, sometimes inventory the effects that had been left behind, ma.e an arrangement for the body to be shi ed bac.. And you had to be careful with the fol.s when you sort of acted as an intermediary. There were some sad, sad cases, but I won?t go into them. There were also other problems. Some of these involved American citi4ens who got into trouble. One exam le, a somewhat interesting case, was when the police called me and said they were holding some Americans. The problem was that one individual had been caught cashing bad chec.s. 0e had hired a ca tain, a crew, a shi and a prostitute to accom any him on his voyage to the )ahamas, and when they got to Grand )ahama he went to the ban. and put in a chec.. The ban. loo.ed at this name, chec.ed with his home ban., yes the com any had an account etc., gave him the money and he and his crew sailed off, this time heading for Nassau. When they landed at Nassau he tried to do the same thing. Went into the ban. with the chec., but this time the ban. didn?t just see whether the com any had money, it made sure that he had the right to sign chec.s. It turned out that he did not. At this point he was still drun., I wal.ed into the police station, he was ha y as could be and not really aware of what had hit him. The police in effect said that he, as far as they can tell, the ca tain, the crew, and the prostitute, had made off with whatever money there was and there was no way that they could prove that. This guy was in trouble. We did our best to see that he was treated fairly under )ritish law, which was our job. They did treat him fairly, I forget what sentence he got. That was a strange case. Another one, which was unusual, again these always ha ened on wee.ends it seems. This one was definitely on a wee.end. Aolice called me and said, :You have to come down, we have a murder case.“ I drove down to the police station, which I should note was next door to the Consulate General, and across from the post office and the place where I would get my Saturday and Sunday pa er, so I had to drive that same road everyday. I sometimes felt I didn?t need to drive, the car could find the way itself. In any case, I showed u outside the police station and I loo.ed u , it had a balcony there and a railing. 0anging over the railing were bloody clothes. That was my introduction to this one. I went u and police said that the circumstances were that two Americans, and again a prostitute they had pic.ed u , had stolen a boat in Miami and had ta.en it on some voyage to find a tro ical island where they could all cavort, or whatever. They ran out of gas and they saw a little island called Cat Cay, I thin. it was. There was no water on it, but they saw it and landed on it. ,ater, they noticed a boat on it. It was a fishing boat, American ca tain, ta.ing some peo le out fishing in the )ahamas. These guys were on the island at that point. They got to the island, gotten off of their boat and the fishing boat comes in to the area and sees them, they motion to it. One of the guys on shore swims out to the fishing boat, he?s got a pistol with him. The other one is on shore with the prostitute, and he has a rifle. When the guy swims out to the boat and gets on board, he pulls his pistol out and the charter boat ca tain reaches for his shar. rifle. Near very close to piracy, more or less, the pirate shot the ca tain and .illed him. 0e then too. the ca tain?s body, the fishermen, and I don?t remember if the prostitute stayed with them or not, but they were all de osited on the island, where again there was no water, no food. The two guys who had stolen the boat then too. the ca tain?s boat and s ed off again. What they didn?t .now was that the fishing boat ca tain had notified the Coast Guard as soon as he saw the stolen boat at Cat Cay. The Coast Guard was aware that peo le a eared stranded on Cat Cay. The B.S. Coast Guard handled the search and rescue for the )ahamas. So they did eventually catch these guys and brought them to the )ahamian authorities. That is when I showed u . They had them under loc. and .ey in the jail in Nassau. My job was again to ensure that they got a fair trial under )ritish law. I learned something about the 2elony Murder ,aw. What that came down to was that not only was the guy who pulled the trigger guilty of murder, but his accom lice on shore holding a rifle aiming in the general direction of the boat was eCually guilty. It was a felony, a murder was created and he was eCually guilty. The charter boat?s ca tain?s wife came, and we made sure that she got what she wanted, which was a front row seat. She sat there through the trial, I went to the trial a few times and again guaranteed that they were treated fairly under )ritish law. And they were. They both were hung. )ritish justice was swift. The ca tain?s widow wanted to be there at the hanging but the )ritish would not ermit that. In any case, it was a sad situation. As )en 0ouc., the Consul there, said to me, :This will .ic. the intellectualism out of you.“ The wor. had im act, you get to see how life is for a fair number of fol.s in the world. 12 ,ery interesting commentary on life in the Consular Service. G,ITMAN8 I have another case that was .ind of interesting. There was again a phone call, this time from the psychiatric institute. They had a woman there, an American citi4en, who was laced there because she was bothering one of the leading merchants and convinced that he loved her and that she had been incarcerated at his reCuest, I guess it was that way if I remember correctly, so she said to me that she could : rove her love“ for him. My tas. was to get in touch with her family to see if we could find some way she could be induced to leave at go home. Eventually I was able to persuade her that the best way would be for her to leave, get a nurse to accom any her and get her bac. to the B.S. where her family could hel her out. It was a strange ex erience in one way, and that is that the doctor had put me in a room with her and she immediately began as.ing for scissors.
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