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that, Mina demanding to know what we were laughing at. We told her later, but not while we were with the fellow.

Do you think she would have--?

She wouldn't have done anything.

But it was her duty really--

It was her duty to report him, but by this time she was on our side!

Anyway, we got to Batum, and then to Tiflis, which is where Stalin was born. From Tiflis we were going to take an overnight train. Here Getzloe of the Times left us to join his wife, who was meeting him in Moscow. At Tiflis we were to take a train to Orozhonikidge, which is a manufacturing city-- an overnight trip. But first they asked us to choose between a Tiflis museum and the wine “trust.” Well, we had seen quite a lot of museums in Turkey and Palestine, so we decided we'd like to see the wine trust. There they gave us samples of every kind of wine. We were toasting each other. They were talking Georgian, Mina was talking Russian, and we were talking English. She didn't understand these people any better than we did. In Russia there are several different languages, and Georgian is as different from Russian as English is from Scandinavian. The result of our toasting was that we all got plastered and missed our train. There was only one train a day.