JEWELS IN RUSSIA
NO LONGER A CRIME WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. It is now safe for society women to wear jewels in Soviet Russia. A Washington society leader has been there and proved it. “It was a bloodcurdling experience, but I went through with it,” said Mrs Edward M. McLean, on her return from Russia, describing her experience in Haunting the two milliondollar (£400,000) Hope diamond in the face of the. proletariat of Moscow. “They hated me,” she said, “for I stood for all that women who wear jewels represent. “But they were fascinated, and I hope I’ve made it safe from now on for American women to wear heavy jewels in Russia.” Mrs McLean, wife of the millionaire publisher, one of the Capitol's outstanding hostesses, was last in the news when suing for £I2OOO <i month maintenance, charging talit her husband had failed to support her and their children. The famous diamond is supposed to be cursed and all of its owners for the last century have boon the victims of bad luck. The great gem was once the property of Louis XIV, and was smuggled out of Franco during the revolution.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18504, 17 September 1934, Page 7
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