Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-02-08 | Page 5 | Swiss Expel Russ Expert |

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Date	1940-02-08
Paper	Salt Lake Telegram
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
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Article Title	Swiss Expel Russ Expert
Type	article
Date	1940-02-08
Paper	Salt Lake Telegram
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
Page	5
OCR Text	Show SWISS EXPEL RUSSJXPERT BERNE, Feb. 8 l Switzerland today ordered soviet Russia's League of Nations expert, Vladimir Vladi-mir Sokoline, to leave the country within two weeks. The order was Issued by both the Swiss federal and Geneva cantonal can-tonal governments, rejecting Moscow' Mos-cow' explanation for wanting to keep Sokoline In Switzerland. Sokoline was dismissed as an undersecretary of the League of Nations sfter soviet Russia s expulsion ex-pulsion and Moscow hsd tried to obtsin suthorizstion for him to remsin in Genevs as "liaison officer" offi-cer" to the International Red Cross committee. League experts, busily coordinating coordi-nating league members' aid to Finland, Fin-land, have made no secret of their displeasure at having a trained soviet so-viet observer remaining In Geneva.
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