RUSSIA: Chestny Chelovyek

No great respecter of Reds is Sir Esmond Ovey, British Ambassador to Moscow. In the Soviet citadel his Embassy flaunts life-size oil paintings of King George & Queen Mary in their coronation robes. In Moscow the Ambassador's young men never hesitate to express on Communism, its leaders and practices, opinions which would cause instant arrest for any but a foreign diplomat. Britons are not popular in Moscow.

It looked last week as though Soviet officials had taken quiet revenge. In still another drive to end sabotage in Soviet plants, the OGPU (secret...

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