Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GSAS students are Norman C. Rabkin, who will study English at the University of Rome, and Richard N. Rosencrance, who will study International Organization at the Australian National University in Canberra...
From Moscow itself last week came a suggestion of panic. Three days after Mrs. Petrov was rescued from the Russians at Darwin, the Russian government abruptly severed diplomatic relations with Australia. In one breath, the Russians accused the Australians of "slander" for calling Petrov a spy, and in the next, demanded his immediate return as a swindler and embezzler. Unable to get back the documents delivered to Australia by Petrov, the departing staff at Canberra's Russian embassy spent their last hours getting rid of other information that might prove valuable to the West. Black smoke belched from...
Last week the veils of mystery around Vladimir Petrov were torn away. Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies told an astonished Parliament that Petrov had been Russia's MVD chief in Australia, had headed an elaborate spy ring involving several Australian nationals. How did the Prime Minister know? Vladimir Petrov had defected to the West, bringing with him hundreds of documents that would serve to smash the spy apparatus completely...
Music in Hiding. Menzies read Petrov's statement: "I wish to ask the Australian government for permission to remain in Australia permanently. I wish to become an Australian citizen as soon as possible. I ask for protection . . . and assistance . . . I no longer believe in Communism of the Soviet leadership. I no longer believe in Communism since I have seen the Australian way of living." He sought asylum, and asylum was granted. Oddly enough, he did not ask asylum for his wife, though she knew that he was about to defect. Last week he was in hiding under guard, playing...
Prime Minister Menzies tried to calm the public outcry over her departure by announcing that Mme. Petrov made no appeal for sanctuary to Australian officials at the airport. Besides, said he, if she wanted to stay, she would get another chance when the plane (bound for Zurich) touched down at Darwin. Menzies was as good as his word. At Darwin, Australian police boarded the plane, disarmed two Russian couriers who were traveling with her-they had .32 revolvers in shoulder holsters-and took Evdokia aside for a 45-minute private talk with a government official. This time...