THE VAN DREISEN AFFAIR

Geneva, Washington, Kharkov, Munich and the Austrian-Hungary border trans-continent the background for young, but recluse, Elena van Dreisen's involvement in the possibility of an international incident. For she carries through her orders to effect the escape of Poporov, a professed communist, is distrusted when she returns to her country, and produces an all-over action in every branch of the State Department to prove and protect an American citizen. An Albrand area with dotted i's.