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Tears & Fire Hoses. Denied more information about -Petrov, Australians' curiosity turned to the fate of his young wife, Evdokia Petrov. Red-eyed from weeping, she appeared at a press interview in the Russian embassy, where Ambassador Nikolai Generalov attacked Menzies' account of the case as "utter nonsense" and backed up Mme. Petrov's statement that her husband had been "kidnaped...
This week the Russians tried to kidnap Evdokia, and almost succeeded. They hustled her into a black Cadillac, sped 190 miles at top speed to Sydney. At the airport, an angry crowd mobbed the Cadillac, tried to overturn the car. The Russian guards dragged Evdokia through the gates while the mob, now 3,000 strong, chanted "Don't let her go." Trying to smile for photographers, Evdokia wept instead, covered her face with both hands. Scores jumped the fence onto the field, broke past police lines to tug at Evdokia and strike at her guards. Witnesses said they heard...
...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 she did ask for sanctuary. When the plane left Australia, she stayed behind...