Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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H. R. H. may have taken comfort in the fact it would be hard to find a less murderous Communist than Ambassador Sokolnikov. Born in 1888, son of a moderately well-to-do bourgeois family, he was exiled for socialist tendencies, went to Paris, where he graduated from the Sorbonne...
Indeed Soviet leaders are none too sure of Ambassador Sokolnikov's loyalty. So accompanying him to St. James's Palace was Dmitri Bogomoloff, Councilor of the Embassy, recently Minister to Poland, reorganizer of Moscow's entire Foreign Intelligence Service. It was no secret to most foreign observers...
That Councilor Bogomoloff might not occupy his spare time by Russian secret service in Britain, Ambassador Sokolnikov paid a formal visit to Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson, gave formal pledges that the Soviet Government would not engage in propaganda either in Britain or in any of the Dominions.
On the 27th birthday of Prince George, last week, his comptroller, Major Ulick Alexander, sought to calm public uneasiness at the fact that for some weeks the precise whereabouts of H. R. H. have not been generally known. After asserting that Prince George had been "staying at Sunningdale and devoting...
The Major added that his charge is not expected to resume his post at the Foreign Office for "several months." Rumors are current in London that H. R. H. combats insomnia with white powders, one school of rumor holding that they are ordinary sleeping powders.