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Captain Chester H. J. Keppler U.S.N. (Ret.) will head a Harvard Committee on Civil Defense to cooperate with local, state, and federal authorities in framing civil defense programs, the University announced yesterday...
...Black Sea-Mediterranean run. A fortnight ago, two weeks out from the port of Burgas in Communist Bulgaria, the Palizzi tied up at Marseille, began discharging cargo. French customs men let the cargo lie on the dock for three days. Then uniformed officers of the Sūreté Nationale (French security police) stamped up the Palizzi gangway, questioned the captain. Had he found any stowaways aboard this trip? No, said the captain. Come along, said the Sūreté, we're going to open up some of your cargo...
...dock a Sūreté officer pointed to a large crate, ordered dockers to break it open. Inside the crate was an old grey Ford automobile. Inside the Ford, smiling and blinking away tears caused by the sunlight, sat an emaciated man with a long beard...
Dockers and customs men watched while a civilian who had come with the Sūreté officers helped the bearded man to climb out of the Ford. They noted that the stowaway spoke Bulgarian to the civilian, Italian to the ship's captain, French to the police. They heard...
...when things had got too hot for him he had climbed into his old Ford and taken off. A message to Paris announcing his coming had been delayed. When it finally arrived, officers of the Services de Documentation et de Contre-Espionnage had wired the local Sūreté to take care...