Author: MILLER, G.E. (Pesudonym) Diplomat [= Mauricio FRESCO]
Title: Shanghai, the Paradise of Adventurers.
Description: New York, Orsay Publishing House Inc, 1937. 24 x 16 cm. 307 pp. Clothbound. - First edition. - Who was Mauricio Fresco? The WWII-era Mexican diplomat traveled the world and worked in Shanghai and Paris. His documents said he was born in Mexico, but in reality, he was a Sephardic Jew from Turkey. - [UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies]. - 'In 1937 the honorary Mexican consul in Shanghai, Mauricio Fresco, wrote a sensationalist expose of the city's dark underbelly - an undertaking which, despite attempts to hide behind a pseudonym, would ultimately cost him his job. In its opening chapter, the author describes a visit to the Renaissance, one of Shanghai's many Russian restaurants and the favourite meeting place of 'all so-called Grandees who claim to have baked in the now-set sun of the Tsar's good graces'. No Soviet citizen would ever dare enter a White stronghold like the Renaissance, he tells us; and if a new face is seen, it is because a Russian girl wants to flaunt her latest western beau. 'I shall manage to pay this month's rent, yet,' Fresco has one such girl jauntily proclaim.' - [Newham Fraser - The White Russians of Shanghai]. - Frontcover a bit stained, some foxing on edges, else a good copy

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