I wonder whether he pinpricks we think it necessary to
inflict on Soviet diplomatists in London in retaliation for the pinpricks the Soviet Government inflicts on our diplomatists in Moscow really do us great credit. To show that two can play at that game sounds well enough, but it involves descending to the Soviet level of behaviour. For the Kremlin to forbid the British and other Ambassadors to travel more than twenty-five miles from Moscow is petty and .childish, but it does not make it essential for our Government to become petty and childish too by imposing like restrictions on the Soviet Ambassador and his staff here. Broadly speaking the more they see of the way this country lives and behaves the better. I know, of course, that the ban is being imposed by all the N.A.T.O. Powers in concert, but it wears no better a complexion for that.
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