Foreign News: Snubbed

Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, to celebrate his advent in the Quai d'Orsay, invited the Bolshevik Ambassador, M. Leonid Krassin, to visit him. The Ambassador accepted the invitation, was closeted with M. Briand for some minutes.

As matters reached the ears of those omnipresent lords of the press—the reporters—it appeared that M. Briand taxed M. Krassin with maintaining at his Embassy a Communist propaganda service and in particular charged one Voline, First Secretary, with having addressee! a public meeting in a tenor most displeasing to the French and entirely subversive of the public weal...

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