[1] Durant became press secretary to the unrecognised Soviet envoy to the United States.
[4] According to British security services records, he was expelled from the United States in 1925 due to his connection with various Communist front organisations.
[5] In 1926 at his home on St. Luke's Place,[6] he and his wife received Hede Massing and Julian Gumperz during a long stay in the United States.
[7] In the late 1920s he formed a relationship with the poet Genevieve Taggard, while he was married to the literary editor Ernestine Evans.
[8] After the death of Taggard he retired to Vermont to write articles about outdoor subjects, and in 1950 married the film editor Helen van Dongen.