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H.M. EMBASSY
MOSCOW
MOSCOW
Lord Pembroke
The Foreign Office
LONDON
6th April 1943
My Dear Reggie,
In these dark days man tends to look for
little shafts of light that spill from Heaven. My
days are probably darker than yours, and I need,
my God I do, all the light I can get. But I am a
decent fellow, and I do not want to be mean and
selfish about what little brightness is shed upon
me from time to time. So I propose to share with
you a tiny flash that has illuminated my sombre
life and tell you that God has given me a new
Turkish colleague whose card tells me that he
is called Mustapha Kunt.
We all feel like that, Reggie, now and then,
especially when Spring is upon us, but few of us
would care to put it on our cards. It takes a Turk
to do that.
(Signed)
Sir Archibald Clerk Kerr,
H.M. Ambassador.
