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...what, after two weeks of national uproar, has been nicknamed "The Mudslinger Affair." Before a packed House of Commons, Liberal Pearson announced that he had appointed Supreme Court Justice Wishart Flett Spence, 62, to look into the possible security lapses resulting from the friendships of German Go-Go Girl Gerda Munsinger, 36, with "ministers-plural" of the previous Conservative government. Many of the hearings will be held in camera. Barring major new developments, this should put the whole case largely out of the public eye until the judge reports to Pearson later this spring...
Then came another explosion. "The girl Canada calls Olga Munsinger is alive and well," announced the Toronto Star in an exclusive story that covered most of its front page. "Her real name is Gerda Munsinger," said the story, and she had fled Communist territory as a refugee when she was 19. Tracked down in Munich by Reporter Robert Reguly, Gerda was living in a "chintzy" apartment at Ainmillerstrasse I, working as the assistant manager of a go-go cabaret and at 36 was still "tall, blonde and shapely...
...said Gerda, she had known one of Diefenbaker's Ministers "very well," still wore the gold birthstone ring given to her by another, Associate Minister of National Defense Pierre Sevigny, whose "frequent companion" she had been from 1958 to 1960. She had visited Sevigny in his suite in Ottawa's Beacon Arms Hotel, entertained him in her own apartment in Montreal, attended an election banquet with him, even flown in a government plane with him to Boston "for the races." She had, she admitted, become involved with a "medium-time" Montreal racketeer. But had she been...
...Communist collaborator" during his campaign for the Minnesota state legislature in 1962, Sociologist Arnold M. Rose paid little attention. Neither did the voters who elected him. But when the attacks continued in a newsletter put out by Christian Research Inc., a Minneapolis outfit run by ex-Schoolteacher Gerda Koch, who says she belongs to the John Birch Society, Rose was deluged with bitter letters, unordered merchandise and anonymous, late-night phone calls. After he decided not to run for re-election and returned to teaching at the University of Minnesota in 1964, Miss Koch attacked him so often that...
...from repeated publication after the victim's denial. More important, he ruled out the need to find actual malice after Rose left the legislature: Rose's professorship at the state university did not make him a public official. Thus advised, the jury awarded Rose $20,000 from Gerda Koch and Christian Research Inc. "I told my friends I would stand by the truth and sing praises to the Lord no matter what," said the defendant as she promised to appeal. If she keeps her promise, she may give the Supreme Court a chance to set some needed limits...