RACED SNOWSTORM
Plane With Ambassadors Aboard RUSSIAN PILOTS PRAISED Rec. 2 p.m. TEHERAN, Nov. 17. A snowstorm followed the plane Sir Walter Monckton. Director-General of the Ministry of information, and party for 200 miles w°™ S tV he Cas v pia 2 Sea - The P'arie won the race by five minutes. Leaving Kuibyshev in thick snow the plane reached Astrakhan on the first night and Baku on the second night. it was weather-bound at Baku for three days. Sir Walter Monckton paid a warm tribute to the efficiency of the Russian pilots. Also aboard the plane were M Maxim Litvinoft, new Russian Ambassador to the United States Mr. Laurence Steinhardt, American Ambassador to Russia, and several leading journalists.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 273, 18 November 1941, Page 7
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