SIR WALTER MONCKTON’S JOURNEY
TEHERAN, November 17.
A snowstorm followed the plane carrying Sir Walter Monckton, Direc-tor-General of the Ministry of Information, and his party, including Mr Laurence Steinhardt, American Ambassador to Moscow, and M. Maxim Litvinov, the new Soviet Ambassador to Washington, for 200 miles across the Caspian. The plane won the race by five minutes.
Leaving Kuibyshev in thick snow, the plane reached Astrakhan the first night and Baku the second night. It was weather-bound in Baku for three days. Sir Walter Monckton paid a warm tribute to the efficiency of the Russian pilots.
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Southland Times, Issue 24596, 19 November 1941, Page 5
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