• On emerging from Russia, Jones made a statement
which, startling
though it sounded, was little more than a summary of what the correspondents and foreign diplomats
had told him. To protect us… he emphasized his Ukrainian foray rather than our
conversations
as the chief source of his information.
• In any case… with preparations
under way for the trial of the British [Metrovik] engineers, the need to remain on
friendly terms with
the censors … was for all of us a compelling professional necessity.
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