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...size thundering in circles all day over Belgrade made sad-eyed French President Albert Lebrun feel safer. M. le Président also had with him War Minister Marshal Pétain, a company of steel-helmeted French infantry, 200 bluejackets and 50 picked detectives of the Sûreté Nationale...
Before he could be caught "Master Mind" Pavelitch had slipped over into Italy. The Italian police detained him at Turin, refused to let him be quizzed by agents of the French Sûreté Nationale who loudly protested to High Heaven and Benito Mussolini. Obviously Il Duce cannot take the chance of a French frame-up to plant responsibility for the crime in Italy or her protege Hungary.. Last week there was distinct danger that on this issue Jugoslavia might prefer charges before the League. A bit too precipitously Premier General Julius...
Grip, the Rat is a story packed with words pronounced differently in different localities. It begins: "Once there [thar, theah] was a young rat [ret, rate] who couldn't make [mek, mack] up his mind. Whenever the other [udder, othah] rats asked [eskt, ast] him if he would like [lake, lack] to come out [oat, aout] with them [dem], he would answer [enser, ahnser], 'I don't know [ah doan-no, I dunno],' and when they said, 'Would you [wouldja] like to stop [stawp] at home [hum, hown]?' he wouldn...
...Even a child would know that the affair was not handled normally from its beginning in December. . . . You ask if I think the Stavisky case might involve only simple negligence? Messieurs, you cannot be naïve after 20 years in the Sûreté. . . . In the organization of the police, the most compromised employes are those enjoying the most favors...
...Stung by charges of connivance and corruption, the Sûreté suddenly sprang to life and arrested three French gangsters charged with the murder of Judge Albert Prince, Stavisky witness, on a Dijon railroad track...