His most notable appointment was as ambassador to Moscow from 1977 to 1980, until he was expelled as a tit-for-tat when the Soviet ambassador Vsevelod Sofinsky was expelled for passing funds to the pro-Soviet Socialist Unity Party of New Zealand.
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