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Word: tessier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Explanation: last week the Imperial Government needed to distract public opinion from the fact that the French Embassy was forcing it to eat crow. Irate France demanded and received apologies for baseless charges recently circulated that handsome French Assistant Naval Attache Tessier Ducros has proved irresistible to 30 ladies, some of the highest Japanese nobility and gentry, others waitresses, professors' wives. In return for his gallant favors they were supposed to have slipped him slews of State secrets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Swords; Seducers; Spies | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

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