RUSSIA: Hurry Home

In Moscow, British Ambassador Sir Alvary Gascoigne got urgent orders to return home for consultation. He did not even wait to preside over special embassy memorial services which he had arranged to mark the death of Queen Mary. Something was in the wind; just what, the world could only guess.

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