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Hunger and hypocrisy in post-imperial Leningrad Friday Book: Inside Stalin's Russia: the Diaries of Reader Bullard 1930-1934 edited by Julian and Margaret Bullard (Day Books, pounds 19.50)
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SIR READER BULLARD is a legend in the Foreign Office - the son of
a London docker who joined the Levant Consular Service in 1906 and
became a specialist in Arab, Turkish and Persian affairs before
ending his career as British ambassador in Tehran. It was there that
"Hajji" Bullard first met Joseph Stalin in the flesh, at a dinner
during the 1943 conference with Roosevelt and Churchill. "He looks
like a benevolent churchwarden, and talks in a slow, soft voice,"
Bullard recorded of the Soviet l...
