Brian Hill (diplomat)
[2] In October 1953 Hill succeeded John McMillan as chargé d'affaires and head of mission in Moscow, in the absence of an official ambassador to the Soviet Union.As a result of the Petrov Affair of 1954, diplomatic relations between Australia and the Soviet Union were severed and the Australian embassy was closed.Hill and his colleagues were ordered to leave the country within three days, and spent seven hours burning documents.[3] However, their departure was delayed by the Soviet foreign ministry's refusal to grant them exit visas.[4][5] Hill remained in Europe after his expulsion, as chargé d'affaires in Bonn, West Germany.