Since prewar days, U.S. and British diplomats in Moscow have been trailed by bodyguards supplied by the Russian authorities "for protection." Last week U.S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen, flying back to Moscow after a visit to Washington, was surprised to find no bodyguard to greet him at the airport and himself free for the first time to move about without escort. This is the kind of change meant to be regarded as a "slight improvement in relations."
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