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...noon last week four eminent Belgians, who had traveled 2,500 miles across the sea, drove up to the White House portico. First to step down from his limousine was M. Emile Francqui, head of Belgium's largest bank, the Société Générale de Belgique. Next was M. Camilla Gutt, of Belgium's great Katanga Copper Company in the Congo. Third was their fellow Tycoon Etienne Allard and fourth was a distinguished young member of the Belgian nobility, Count Philippe d'Arschot. Escorted by Ambassador May and members of his staff...
Down the corridor the Stavisky committee was also hearing things from an honest inspector of the Sûreté Générale to make its ears burn. Snapped Inspector Simon...
Last week Paris-Soir, smart eleven-year-old French daily which has made great leaps in circulation in the past year, again showed its mettle by accusing the Paris police and the Sûreté Générale of wilfully bungling the Stavisky investigation and then hiring five of the fanciest detectives to track down the murderers of Alexandre Stavisky and of Judge Albert Prince. The Paris-Soir pack of bloodhounds included Detective Story Writers Georges Simenon and André Gaston Leroux, son of the creator of Arsène Lupin; onetime Chief Inspector Alfred C. Collins...
...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 for all it was worth in a gallant if hopeless effort to distract an enraged public from the malodorous morass of L'Affaire Stavisky...
...Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor, accused of selling documents stolen from the War College, and Camille André, a onetime stockbroker who attempted to peddle naval plans which neither the British nor Japanese consulates in Marseilles needed. Announced the Sûreté Générale: "Police throughout Europe cooperated with us, but we found the aid of the American police most valuable." All this was news to both Federal agents in New York and Inspector Joseph Donovan of the Criminal Identification Bureau who stated that he had not been asked to make any investigation...