Word: gerda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grimké Sisters from South Carolina by Gerda Lerner...
...Routh. His fiercely prudish sermons from the bench drive adulterers to suicide and his wife to drink. He is as pompous a prig as ever rode a Rolls to work and pride to a fall. But the only tumble Miss Tracy gives him is into the downy bed of Gerda Trauenegg, a well-tuned opera singer from Vienna. Catching him with his wig down, Gerda momentarily taps a streak of puritanical lechery...
...Diefenbaker's reproof adequate action? How much had he been told of the report by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police which disclosed that in Germany in 1949 Gerda stole two border passes and sold them to a Russian intelligence agent in East Berlin? The same year she showed up in a U.S. Army maneuver area with a man who had crossed over illegally from East Germany, carrying "a camera purportedly to take pictures of the area." After entering Canada in 1955, Gerda moved into an apartment below some "known Soviet agents," turned to prostitution ($15 to $20 per customer...
...Dief said no. Breaking a long silence on Gerda, a Diefenbaker spokesman stormed that "this unsubstantiated, unverified material is a smear and completely irresponsible...
...Lady of Distinction." Sévigny himself was no help to Diefenbaker's cause. He never denied having had a "physical relationship" with Gerda, but insisted that she was a "lady of distinction" who was "welcomed in Montreal's select circles." As far as his own friendship was concerned, there was a platonic all-night visit to her Montreal apartment as late as November 1960, during which, he said, he did nothing more indiscreet than take a nap in a chair...