Word: esmonde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what extent the Soviet Government is guilty of "religious persecution" strikingly appeared last week when England's famed Manchester Guardian secured and printed the substance of the secret report lately made to Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald by His Majesty's Ambassador in Moscow, Sir Esmond Ovey...
...fearing Church of Englander, schooled at aristocratic Eton, Sir Esmond does not lie under slightest suspicion of partiality for the Reds. He and the First Secretary of his Embassy prepared the report after "very wide inquiries in religious quarters." At the British Foreign Office officials expressed well-bred annoyance that this secret state paper had fallen into even the trustworthy Guardian's hands but made no suggestion that it was not genuine...