DIPLOMAT SEEKS REFUGE
REFUSAL TO RETURN TO MOSCOW APPEAL TO FRANCE FOR SHELTER (CNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIO'-IT./ (Received December 7, 1 a.m.) LONDON, December 6. The Paris correspondent of "The Times" says that after the receipt of an order to return to Moscow—with which he refuses to comply— M. Alexander Barmin, Counsellor to the Soviet Legation at Athens since 1934, has arrived in France. He asks the Government to allow him to stay as a political emigre. M. Barmin has also appealed to the Central Committee of the League for the Defence of the Rights of Man for energetic action to save the lives of numerous Soviet diplomats who are now imprisoned in Moscow He also seeks aid for those who are ill at theor 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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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22269, 7 December 1937, Page 11
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