Bugle Blast

Some two months ago M. Christian G. Rakovsky, then Soviet Ambassador to Great Britain, and M. Leonid Krassin, who occupied the same office in France, ware exchanged between these two posts by order of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union.

M. Krassin left France without ever having received the custom-sanctioned honor of hearing the national anthem of his country played when he visited President Doumergue. For 50 days M. Rakovsky has been vowing that he would never call on M. le President at all unless assured that the "Internationale" would blare from the Elysee at his approach.

Last week the diplomatic pressure from both sides eased off into a prolonged flourish of bugles, which may or may not have contained a note or two from the bourgeois-terrifying "Internationale." M. Rakovsky accepted the deafening blast ordered by M. Doumergue at its full tonal value. Smiling, he nodded to the buglers as he entered the palace of the President to present his credentials.