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Meanwhile convicted spies Mr. & Mrs. Robert Gordon Switz of East Orange, N. J. were "exempted from punishment" by the French Government in return for their voluble peaching on the other spies. Promptly Mr. Switz started writing for Hearst's Universal Service and the London Daily Express...
...Paris the trial of assorted spies for Germany and Russia who were betrayed to the Sûreté Nationale by their friends, Mr. & Mrs. Robert Gordon Switz of East Orange, N. J. (TIME, March 26, 1934, et seq.), buzzed on last week. Two star female prisoners continued to rely for acquittal on daily exhibitions in court of babies born to them in jail...
Sympathy for the Switzes, strong when they were supposed to be undergoing a French third degree, evaporated as Mrs. Switz appeared hard and swank in a costume from the Rue de la Paix and Mr. Switz slouched in the witness chair, reeling off sums of money which he said he paid to spies. Said the Switzes: "We did it all for France." Thus far their peaching has been valuable enough to bring them definite assurances that they will merely be deported...
Governor Rolph's secretary replied that, because of ''so many requests of a similar nature for donations," he could not contribute. Nevertheless, the campaign netted $105, provided Caroline Decker with a typewriter, an ample supply of ribbons and paper.-ED. Egg-Sucking Switz Sirs: Re: One-hole Egg Mystery. The skepticism of your correspondent. Mr. William Tarrant Jr. (April 20 is worthy of a Bertillon! He is correct in believing that the great one-hole egg mystery will undoubtedly "make those French Johnnies sit back, take their hats off and scratch their heads," even despite your learned...
...Hole Eggs Sirs: Now, sir, will you have your mysteries-with eggs or without them? That Switz spying affair seems to be hard enough for those French gendarmes to unravel, but now-well, let us see what TIME has brought. ". . . Scotland Yard carefully examined the Chelsea, London flat in which the Switzes lived for many months. There they found a new touch of mystery-dozens & dozens of eggshells, carefully blown, with a neat hole in end of each." (TIME, April 2, p. 16.) Now there is a mystery that will make those French Johnnies sit back, take their hats...