• 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 [sabotage] trial of the British [Metrovik] engineers,
the need to remain on friendly terms with the [Soviet press] censors
… was for all of us [Moscow Journalists] a compelling professional
necessity.
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