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Five nights later, the Soviet Foreign Ministry summoned the British ambassador to Moscow, Sir John Killick, who had just sat down to dinner. In fine Britannic spirit, Sir John refused to rise until he had finished his meal 30 minutes later. Only then was he informed that the Kremlin had ordered four British diplomats and a businessman to leave the country. An additional nine diplomats, three businessmen and an academician who were not in the Soviet Union at the moment were declared persona non grata; some of them, in fact, had not been there for five years. For good measure...
There is a possibility that the Soviets will retaliate by expelling British embassy staffers in Moscow, but no chance whatever that Moscow will be able to give measure for measure. The British community in Moscow, where London's new Ambassador Sir John Killick presented his credentials just last week, consists of only about 100 diplomats, businessmen and journalists...
...Plates. "Nobody pretends the diplomat needs absolute and total immunity from everything," John E. Killick, counselor of the British embassy, told a panel discussion at the District of Columbia Bar Association, and the U.S. is beginning to agree with...