SOVIET ENVOY.
Shelter in France Through Fear
To Return to Moscow.
APPEAL FOR PROTECTION.
LONDON", December 6
The Paris correspondent of "The Times'' says that, following an order to return to Moscow, with which he refuses to comply. Alexander Murmin. Counsellor at the Soviet Legation. Athens, since 1034. has arrived in France and has asked the (invernment to allow him to stay as a political emigre.
Barmiii has also appealed to the Central Committee of the League of Nations for defence of the rights of man and for energetic action to save the lives of numerous Soviet diplomats now imprisoned in Moscow, also on behalf of those still at their posts abroad, "who must choose between risking death in" a Moscow prison if they return home or murder by secret agents if they stay abroad."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 290, 7 December 1937, Page 7
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