WORLD : Britain Orders 4 Czech Envoys Out
Britain ordered the expulsion of four members of the Czechoslovak Embassy today for “activities incompatible with their status” but said the move was not related to last week’s expulsion of 11 Soviet diplomats and journalists.
The British Foreign Office said Czechoslovak Ambassador Jan Fidler was summoned and told the four had 14 days to leave.
The Foreign Office said Fidler was told the three diplomats and one technical adviser “had been engaged in unacceptable activities incompatible with their status”--a diplomatic euphemism for spying.
The wording was identical to a statement issued in September when Britain ordered three Czechoslovak diplomats out for espionage. Prague retaliated by throwing out two British diplomats.
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