The U.S. press found little exciting in the espionage trial of Russian Lieut. Nikolai Redin. Most papers carried a casual paragraph or two each day of the trial. But one reporter at the press table in Seattle filed a thumping 1,500 to 2,500 words a night to New York, and got no squawks from his employer. He was greying, 41-year-old William E. Dodd Jr., son of the late U.S. Ambassador to Germany. His employer: Tass, short for Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union.
No Russian paper out of the 8,639 dailies and weeklies served...
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