SOVIET ATTACHES
RECALLED FROM LONDON AMBASSADOR ALSO RETURNING ACTION CONNECTED WITH PURGE fUuited Press Association— Fly Electric Telegraph—Copy rißlttl LONDON. 15th November. ■The “Daily Mail” says speculation is rife regarding the future of Soviet Embassy officials in London who have just been recalled to Russia, where the second secretary, M. Anton Schuster, has been for a fortnight. Those recalled arc M. Lev Chikunski, naval attache, M. A. K. Sivkov, military attache, and M. Ivan Chernoy, air attache. The last two succeeded M. Putna, who. after being recalled, died in jail, branded as a Trotskyist. The “Daily Mirror” says the Ambassador. M. Maisky, is expected to leave London for Leningrad next Friday. The paper connects the recall of M. Maisky’s attaches with M. Stalin’s purge, and says M. Maisky might refuse to go, but he has a daughter living in Russia, and it is thought her safety will dictate nis obedience to orders.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 17 November 1937, Page 5
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