A Russian lady with her un-Russian name of Dickson (widow of an American) was interested to catch a glimpse of M. Leonid Krassin, Bolshevik Ambassador to France, as he left the Embassy.
What better place to see the Ambassador than directly in front of the Embassy None. So she "hung around," her hands hidden in her sleeves, for it was very cold.
But an alert special policeman, deputed to guard the Embassy, became suspicious. He asked her several questions in Italian, in which language the woman answered. She was waiting, she said, to see...
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