RUSSIA: Farewell

On Moscow's Belorussku Station platform last week, a jolly crowd of ambassadors, ministers, diplomats bade an informal farewell to U. S. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies, who was leaving for his new post at Brussels. As the train pulled out. a messenger from the Kremlin rushed up to Mr. Davies, handed him a small flat parcel. Inside were autographed pictures of Joseph Stalin and Premier Viacheslav M. Molotov.

This unusual parting gift to the U. S. capitalist-diplomat from the Soviet Union's Communist rulers was the last of a series of cordial farewells terminating Mr....

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