Unhappy Man

"All of the Soviet officials I have dealt with are cultured and really swell persons! They are paying me so much that in three years I shall be independently wealthy. Many times of late I have awakened in the night, terrified lest my good fortune was a dream!"

Thus, only two months ago spoke Hector 0. Hamilton, British subject and East Orange, N. J. architect, famed for his prize-winning design for Moscow's projected Palace of Soviets (TIME, March 14). When he spoke Mr. Hamilton was in Manhattan but expected to spend most of his time for the next three years in "a peach of a suite in Moscow at the Hotel National."

Last week Hector O. Hamilton returned to Moscow, left again 48 hours later. Declared the official Soviet news agency Tass: "Mr. Hamilton has not and never has had any job in construction of the Palace."

Bewildered, rudely awakened from his dream of independent wealth in three years, Hector 0. Hamilton could tell correspondents no more than that he thought the Soviet authorities have recently learned for the first time that he is a subject of King-Emperor George V though his home is in East Orange, N. J. For a Palace of Soviets to be designed by a King-Emperor's subject would perhaps be too incongruous.

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