Dilemma

The British in Moscow, like the Americans before them, last week got an eviction notice from their Russian landlords. They were given three months to find a new building for their embassy and get out of the 19th century sugar-baron's mansion across the Moskva river from the Kremlin, which they have occupied for nearly 25 years.

For one minor member of the embassy staff, 31-year-old Storekeeper George Bundock, the order raised a special complication. Since he was convicted in 1948 on a morals charge involving a Russian girl and sentenced to 18 months in prison, Bundock has stayed in the embassy, with the cooperation of the British government, which felt that the Russians had railroaded him. When moving day comes, Bundock will have to ride through Moscow to whatever new quarters the British settle in. Foreign Office diplomats have not yet figured out whether the usual diplomatic immunity will extend to moving vans or limousines, or what they can do about it if the Russians lie in wait for Storekeeper Bundock.

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