RUSSIA: Polo Diplomacy

Seven crack horsemen from War Commissar Klimentiy E. Voroshilov's Red cavalry rode forth one afternoon last week on a pleasant green meadow across the river from Moscow. They dangled polo mallets from their wrists. With them rode a Philadelphia socialite who had won his one-goal rating with the Bryn Mawr Polo Club and the West Point polo team, Charles W. Thayer, personal secretary to U. S. Ambassador William Christian Bullitt.

Bill Bullitt was also born & bred a Philadelphia socialite of the bluest. But today he is famed as the only envoy in...

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