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...diplomatic immunity in foreign embassies, the Soviet MVD's foreign-intelligence section has long been the world's biggest and busiest espionage organization. But allied counter-espionage agencies are beginning to box in the Russians. Since 1950 the U.S. has declared 13 Soviet diplomatic employees persona non grata. The practice has spread to Holland, Denmark and Sweden, which have recently demanded the withdrawal of suspected Soviet embassy spies. Last month the FBI, arresting Jacob Albam and Myra and Jack Soble on charges of being Soviet agents (TIME, Feb. 4), hinted that it had evidence of a vast...
...stepped ashore. It was nothing compared with the storm blowing up from pulpit, editorial page, civic organizations and even state legislatures over a visit tentatively scheduled for April by Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. By last week it was plain that, foreign policy or no, Tito was persona non grata to a vociferous segment of the American public...
Hammett's ideological stupidities for a time made him persona non grata with State Department libraries, but the old master of the "Black Mask" magazine wrote some of the finest non-political fairy tales before he vanished into obscurity. The Maltese Falcon is among his best...
...note in the middle of an election campaign, he said, and especially by referring, by implication, to Stevenson's views on atomic testing, Bulganin had interfered in U.S. internal affairs in a way that, "if indulged in by an ambassador, would lead to his being declared persona non grata...
...government spokesman, had reported to two British embassy first secretaries-John G. Gove and James B. Flux. The diplomats were given 72 hours to leave the country. (The British Foreign Office promptly declared that two officials of parallel status in Egypt's London embassy were persona non grata...