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...times for the sake of America, but not just for the sake of making a Red Grange hero out of a politician whose "most amazing accomplishment" during a year set aside for him to experiment, with the entire facilities of the country at his disposal, was to ring up a good score for personal popularity...
Early one morning last week whistles began to blow, bells to ring in the city of Manila. In Washington a few minutes before (noon of the day before) President Roosevelt, beaming his best smile, exclaimed: "This is a great day for you and for me!'' The gentlemen he was addressing were two Filipinos, Senators Manuel Quezon and Elpidio Quirino, who had just watched him sign the McDuffie-Tydings bill offering to make the Philippines a Commonwealth for ten years, to grant them independence thereafter. Everybody beamed but no one was genuinely elated. The McDuffie-Tydings...
French newshawks spent a great deal of time last week trying to connect the late Alexandre Stavisky and the great "international spy ring" about which the French police were growing so eloquent following the confessions of U. S. Citizen Robert Gordon Switz & wife. The pay is too small and the risks too great for a swindler like Sacha Stavisky to bother with international espionage. But one connection between the two stories was obvious. Both the Paris police and the Sûreté Générale were under orders to play the Switz spy scare...
...Soviet Russia, against France, Britain and the U. S. The apartment of a Mlle. Baila Englard was raided. It was unoccupied but reported to be full of secret drawers, sliding panels and lists of people whose names were not divulged. French agents announced that the real head of the Ring was one Violette Levine, a U. S. schoolteacher. But the shy Violette could not be found. Seven more people were arrested for espionage last week, including a Col. Dumoulin, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor, accused of selling documents stolen from the War College, and Camille Andr...
...from that of the Robert Gordon Switz's in Paris. Soon after his arrest by the Finnish political police last October on charges of high treason and espionage, the French Government let it be known that Jacobson and Switz were mixed up in the same far-flung spy ring...