U.S.A. REFUSES TO HAND TEACHERS OVER TO RUSSIA
Recd. 6.25 p.m. Washington, Sept. 13 The United States today reiterated its refusal to turn over to the Soviet authorities three Russian school teachers who took refuge here rather than return to Moscow, and told the Soviet Ambassador in Washington (Mr Alexander Panyushkin) that it “must now consider the matter closed.”
The United States Note stressed compliance with the Soviet request that Soviet representatives be given free access to Mrs. Osana Kasenkina, who was injured when she jumped from the third floor of the Russian Consulate in New York several weeks ago, and Mr. and Mrs. Michael Samarin, the other two teachers, “would be incompatible with the principles of law whereon the United States Government was founded, and to which it adheres.” The Note said it was a matter exclusively for determination by the teachers themselves wnetner they would see Soviet representatives.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 15 September 1948, Page 5
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