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the institution. Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon alexander's appointment as an honorary fellow. Thus, he will have a continuing run excelled by any living person is affiliated with the Hoover institution. Mr Jetson will speak in Russian doctor Richard Starr. In my own country Russia. I had no

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access to any archival materials. Some and when I was working on various topics dealing with the First World War namely the year 1914 and the Military Archives, administration of the soviet Union began an investigation to establish who had given me access to these materials. Is this

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teach us, Libya's not a pushing examined material here. I have had open access to the richest archival material dealing with Russia and I can work without any interruption or interference. Yes sir. And you will be tested on your chest. There is a Russian proverb that in

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every unhappiness there is also happiness. Mm hmm, mm hmm alexander. Sol johnny Chen has accepted an appointment as an honorary fellow at the Hoover Institute. He will leave here today for a short visit to Washington D. C. Then on to his home in Switzerland on the

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stanford campus. Jon Lester Channel five eyewitness News. The exiled Russian authors presence on campus had been a well guarded secret until he was spotted earlier this week by a campus newspaper photographer. Saul Jonathan is in the process of writing a book on the prerevolutionary period in

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Russia and events that led to the overthrow of the czar. The hoover institution's archives on Russian history is world famous containing materials that are not even available in the soviet union. The Russian author came here under conditions that his work would not be interfered with. I

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gotta go and I ran back and sit on the side.