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Further assurance that the U.S. was in an unhappy way came from Jacob M. Lomakin, former Soviet consul general in New York, who was invited by the U.S. to go home last August after Oksana Kasenkina jumped from his consulate window. Now chief of the Soviet Foreign Office press section, Lomakin turned up for Foreign Minister Vishinsky's first official reception last week in an expansive mood. To foreign correspondents he declared that the U.S. maintains "the world's worst censorship." He went on to explain that the U.S. press is controlled by at least three sets...
Moscow managed to sound almost abused in answering the announcement that Jacob Lomakin, Soviet consul general in New York, was being ejected by the U.S. It rejected the State Department's accusations on the grounds that they were "unfounded and contrary to fact." The Soviet note blandly explained: "Since Kasenkina is in a hospital virtually under prison conditions ... statements described to her cannot be considered as deserving any confidence...
...Jovial Man. The musical comedy aspect of the affair reached its climax at week's end when Consul General Lomakin sailed for home on the Swedish American Line steamship Stockholm. He waved to photographers with the jovial air of a man who might be seeing them again. (He can claim re-entry because he is a member of the United Nations Subcommittee on Freedom of Information and of the Press.) Before sailing, he told a steamship official that he was to become Andrei Gromyko's adviser at the U.N. General Assembly in Paris...
...also cleared up a minor mystery-why had she written a letter to Consul General Lomakin after her first escape to Countess Alexandra Tolstoy's farm? "I wanted to speak to them as human beings in order to see that proper arrangements [for staying in the U.S.] could be made. When they came, they were not human beings at all, but arrested...
Said the New York Daily News, in U.S. idiom which no doubt would fascinate Jake: "This demand that Lomakin be jerked the hell out of here should have a wholesome effect on the overlords of the Kremlin...