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Because Minister of Interior Jean Louis Malvy fell in a swoon (TIME, March 29) while enraged Deputies shrieked, "Traitor! Pig! Lover of Mata Hari!" and because he subsequently resigned from Premier Briand's Cabinet (TIME, April 19), many Frenchmen had been strengthened in their belief of the nine-year-old charge that he was once the lover of Mata Hari, a Javanese-Dutch dancer, who allegedly secured and sold to Germany secrets concerning the British tank (1917) and was shot as a spy on French soil a few months later...
Last week, doddering old General Adolph Messimy (in 1914 Minister of War) created a sensation by calmly announcing that he, not M. Malvy, was the lover of Mata Hari. He said: "During many months, she, by all the means of seduction she knew how to employ in incomparable fashion, tried to acquire the right to call herself my mistress. I found her charming, but full of mystery, enticing, disquieting. I had the imprudence not only to tell her that but to write...
Since Mata Hari's secret trial it has been known only that her lover was "a Cabinet Minister whose name begins with an M and ends with a Y"? both of which qualifications apply to both M. Malvy and General Messimy. The General has apparently held his peace all too long...
Malvy. Hotheads leaped up and bellowed that the new Minister of Interior, Louis Jean Malvy, was friendly to the notorious Germany spy, Mata Hari, during the War, that he had traitorously sold information to the Germans, fomented mutinies and was even chiefly responsible for the Allied setback at the Chemin des Dames. They demanded to know why M. Briand had included such a man in his Cabinet.* In vain the Government, supporters yelled hack that most of these charges were lies in the first place and that anyhow M. Malvy had expiated whatever guilt was his by submitting...
Despatches reported that at the coronation of the notorious "Mr. A." as Maharaja Sir Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir (TIME, March 8) over 337,837 rupees ($125,000) was expended upon the hire and expenses of dancing girls, who were brought "from all over India" to entertain his guests...