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Colonel O'Laughlin (a reserve rank) covered St. Petersburg (now Leningrad) for the Associated Press in 1904, and subsequently was used by Theodore Roosevelt as a go-between with the Russians in arranging the Russo-Japanese peace. For two months in 1909, he was Teddy's first assistant secretary of state, then he trekked to Africa with Roosevelt as a personal secretary. In World War I, he was a Major in the Quartermaster Corps, later for a time a U.S. secretary for the Inter-Allied Munitions Council. He bought the 81-year-old Journal in 1925, still does...
Following the Paris display, at two week intervals will come exhibits dealing with London, Rome, Vienna, Leningrad and Moscow shown together, and finally a group of the smaller capitals...
Norman Armour (of the Princeton, not the meat-packing Armours) had spent a good part of his 29-year career in trouble spots. As a diplomatic fledgling, he went through the Red Revolution in Leningrad, where he met a Russian princess, Myra Koudacheff, got her safely out of the country, and later married her. In Argentina, from 1939 until his recall, he rode the ups & downs of U.S. prestige like a veteran gaucho. In the years between, he was in Tokyo at the time of the Nanking incident, helped get the U.S. Marines out of Haiti, survived Chile...
...Army men and Russian political experts were quartered in the turreted Hotel Torni, the plushy Societetshuset and the old Estonian Legation in swank Brunnsparken. They raced around Helsinki in Russian autos. Their boss was smart, rugged Colonel General Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov, Leningrad's Communist chief and Stalin's heir apparent. In the thick of last week's crisis, General Zhdanov suddenly zoomed off to Moscow, then zoomed back, presumably bringing Stalin's latest word to the Finns. What it might be Finns would soon find...
...Sibelius told me he listens frequently to the radio and so keeps in touch with current music. 'I heard the Leningrad Symphony and I feel Shostakovich has very great talent,' he said...