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...deer park while pudgy Party Boss Khrushchev went out into a berry patch to pick raspberries with Defense Minister Zhukov. Down by the lake shore a memorable tableau formed. Ex-Premier Georgy Malenkov now acted as a glorified cruise director. He directed Admiral Sergei Gorshkov to pilot British Chargé d'Affaires C. C. Parrott and his wife around the lake in a motorboat. The admiral almost ran down a rowboat in which Mikoyan was rowing Mrs. Bohlen. ("Mikoyan is an old sailor, and he is reliable in all respects," Khrushchev had assured Mrs. Bohlen.) U.S. Ambassador Bohlen then...
After two hours under siege, Hostess Mesta and her luggage were rescued by the U.S. chargé d'affaires, but 50 other Americans in the hotel lost all their belongings. The Majestic was left without a pane of glass, a bed or a bidet intact...
AHMED ABDUL JABBAR Chargé d'Affaires ad interim...
...Chargé d'Affaires Stoffel, in an official diplomatic note to the Swiss Foreign Office, demanded immediate arrest and extradition of the attackers, accused the Swiss police of "inexcusable tardiness." He said that the attack was an "act of banditry without precedent" by "a gang of Rumanian fascists and other criminal elements, armed with automatic weapons, axes and knives," who had "pillaged" the legation. The Swiss simply replied that they did not like the tone of the Rumanians' protest...
While Radio Bucharest filled the air with Chargés that the four were paid U.S. agents, the Swiss were more inclined to accept the judgment of Father Seckinger: "They are all ardent Rumanian patriots and idealists. They hoped by their action to draw attention to the awful state of "affairs in Rumania under the Communist regime." Booking the four men for manslaughter (not murder), Swiss police did not make their names public, and categorically refused to hand them over to the Communists for extradition to Rumania. Whether the audacious young masked men had found anything incriminating, Swiss police would...