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...Express last week. At that, Ambassador Suritz could not have been wholly sorry to leave Paris. Since the war with Finland his Government has been a good deal less than popular in France. On a recent evening French Playwright René Fauchois saw the Ambassador rolling by in his bulletproof limousine, hollered: "Vive la Finlande!" 'Bulletproof notwithstanding, the Ambassador dived for the car's floor...
Meanwhile Sumner Welles continued his overshadowed way. Last week when he got to Paris there were 200 mobile guards at the Gare de Lyon, 200 extra plainclothesmen, military motorcyclists to escort him to the Ritz Hotel. The Renault he rode in had steel armor, bulletproof glass, bulletproof tires. Paris correspondents, noting that George VI had received just such elaborate precautions, rushed 50 strong to his first press conference, where polite Sumner Welles reduced them to silence by saying that he could say nothing...
Capone, secure behind his bulletproof vest, his gunmen, his cordon of attorneys, his wall of alibis, was beyond the law. He was said to have $15,000,000 set aside just to grease his way out of trouble. He was arrested and questioned about the killing of Johnny Duffy, and released; arrested and questioned in the killing of Joe Howard, released again. He was indicted for violation of the Prohibition law in 1926; the indictment was quashed for lack of evidence. No one ever testified that the elegantly porcine hoodlum ever committed a murder...
...Italian dispatches described bulletproof metal vests, arm and leg armor and full-faced helmets worn by German soldiers sent out to cut wire...
Your talk of bullet-proof glass, for instance, is just plain tommyrot. Even though British law has made the gangster's profession a precarious one in this country, still we do know the difference between bulletproof glass and unshatterable or safety glass, with which latter the Royal car and many others in Canada are equipped. Your insistence upon this entirely fictitious bullet-proof glass is one of the most odious insinuations you could suggest against a loyal people...