711.61/12–847: Airgram
The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Durbrow) to the Secretary of State
restricted
Moscow, December 8,
1947.
A–1324. Civilian section of November 7 parade for first time since before war included several anti-American and anti-British banners. One, for example, pictured Uncle Sam leaning on a dollar sign with his foot on the British flag. Another showed the British lion wearing a tattered sheepskin coat and holding binoculars—a reference to the British Military Attaché who was recently accused of spying (re Embtel 3287, November 261) and who himself was in the tribune watching the parade!
Durbrow