In recent weeks British and U.S. diplomats in Czechoslovakia have had the uncomfortable feeling that they were being followed. Two weeks ago the Foreign Ministry proudly produced results: British Air Attaché Group Captain Cedric Masterman and U.S. Air Attache Colonel D.E. Teberg, they said, had been "apprehended" in a "clearly demarcated forbidden military zone."
In separate answering notes, the U.S. and British ambassadors told what really happened. One sunny afternoon Group Captain Masterman and Colonel Teberg, out for a picnic in the countryside, were driving along the main highway north of Prague...
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