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After the Soviet ship Pobeda sailed from Italy with some 400 homeward-bound U.S.S.R. tourists aboard, the Soviet embassy in Rome sprang a surprise: two of the sightseers, bustling incognita about the city's antiquities, had been a daughter of Nildta Khrushchev, Rada, and a daughter-in-law of Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin, Ina-a kind of junior ladies' division of the famous B. & K. traveling troupe. Neither lady's husband made the trip; Rada had prosaically explained: "My husband is just another Russian who works in Moscow. He could not get a vacation...
...Kiraly of Hungary finished second and Edi Rada of Austria, the European figure skating champion, third in the final standings...
Troubles multiplied. The "elected" Rada became unruly, and it became necessary to set up a frank puppetry under a Hetman named Paul Skoropadsky. Marshal von Eichhorn was assassinated by a Ukrainian terrorist. The peasant workers of the Ukraine became infected with Soviet ideology; riots broke out. Disorderly crowds of the Austrian troops who were supposed to garrison the area started west for home in trains and on foot, selling their arms to the local populace. The German soldiers caught Bolshevism, and it spread like an epidemic...
Senor Gonzalo Robles, who has been Mayor of Tacna City under the Chilean regime, gloomily signed away the municipal buildings, the civic water works, the provincial railways, everything. Across the table Peru's beaming, complacent Foreign Minister Rada y Gamio in effect signed receipts. Both statesmen worked cautiously, inspecting each document minutely ere they autographed it irrevocably. Dawn broke. Presently it was high noon. Still the pen-scratching continued...
...until 2:15 p. m. did Foreign Minister Rada y Gamio scrawl his signature for the 138th time onto the final document giving the very last parcel of Tacna to Peru...