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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Do Dai Phuoc led French counter-espionage agents to an Indo-Chinese Socialist in whose home police found 80 copies of the Revers report. The Socialist said he had received the report from a known informer whom the cops suspected of playing a double or triple game-informing not only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Scandal | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

A Non-Political Successor. Questioned, General Revers made a damaging admission: he had given the text of the report to General Mast. In his turn, Mast admitted that he had passed it on to the informer. In Paris last week, fellow officers reasoned that, in handing out the report which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Scandal | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Determined to avoid scandal, Premier Georges Bidault's cabinet made no public charges when it removed Revers. Instead, it placed him "at the disposal of the Prime Minister," and there was even talk that General Revers would get a new job, probably with Western Union headquarters at Fontainebleau. To...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Scandal | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Demi-Rome. It was not an easy matter to decide. The world's oldest profession could claim a long and proud history in Italy. Romulus and Remus, the brothers who founded Rome, it was said, were themselves the bastards of a vestal virgin who yielded to Mars for a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Battle of the Brothels | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Like Enemy Airplanes. Bordello-keepers united against the anti-brothel bill and raised a 60 million lire ($96,000) fighting fund. In one house in Milan, any customer signing a petition against the bill was awarded one free visit. The girls and the worried madam in a swank Naples house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Battle of the Brothels | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

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