The Archive · 1929

The Soviet Touch in Paris

Status of Dovgalevsky Involved in Scandal accordingly, be thrashed out before 'a French Court. Bessedovsky, on his part, has already announced his intention to sue the Embassy for damages for libel and defamation of character, Paris, Oct. 8.

The Bessedovsky affair threatens to develop into a big scandal seriously damaging Soviet-Russia's prestige abroad. It is reported that the agent of the Russian secret Police, named Rocsemann, whose appearance at the Embassy and the threats he used vis-a-vis of Bessedovsky, and which caused the latter to flee for his life from the Embassy building, expressed his dissatisfaction at the Ambassador's Dovgalevsky's attitude over' Bessédovaky.

Roesemann maintained that Dov-

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