RUSSIAN DIPLOMAT SEEKS REFUGE
COMMAND TO RETURN TO MOSCOW DISOBEYED (Received December 6, 11.45 p.m.) LONDON, December 6. After an order to return to Moscow, with which he refuses to comply, M. Alexander Barmin, Counsellor at the Soviet Legation at Athens since 1934, has arrived in France, says the Paris correspondent of The Times. M. Barmin 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 diplomatists now imprisoned in Moscow, and 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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Southland Times, Issue 23376, 7 December 1937, Page 7
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