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With the collaboration of Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, a trap was set in the Embassy with a Scotland Yard agent replacing Clerk Kent and taking all his telephone calls. Into it fell an attractive, 37-year-old White Russian emigree, Anna Wolkov. Weak Clerk Kent, in love with Anna Wolkov and fanatically antiSemitic, had been persuaded to pass on information and documents to his inamorata, who then was suspected of sending them across the Irish Sea to the German Legation in Dublin...
Last fortnight Brazilians were treated to a report by their Department of Education as lurid as a story by E. Phillips Oppenheim. Prowling in a Japanese house in Sao Paulo, said the report, educational inspectors discovered a cunningly concealed trap door in the floor. They called police who found a school in session in the cellar, complete with Japanese teachers, Japanese books, Japanese flags, pictures of the Emperor. They also discovered a set of chemistry books explaining how to make bombs, another set on airplane-making. By last month, the Department Announced, police had ferreted out and closed 78 underground...
...that in the 41 years of fire fighting which he can remember Cambridge has always been rated A-1 by the underwriters. This has been accomplished "despite what we have to work with"; namely, an almost brand new $275,000 plant including even the latest in patented tulip-trap-door poles for the men to slide down. In fact, the only bit of equipment which the chief would like to add at the moment is a "shillalah" to crack automatically the skull of anyone sending in a false alarm from the box in front of the Lampoon. Last year this...
...teary, highly successful Mayerling-submits the suggestion that Franz Ferdinand's and Sophie's double assassination at Sarajevo was more than the accidental success of a Bosnian anarchist; that Austrian ministers, frightened by the Archduke's democratic leanings, purposely led him into the death trap...
Some 120 more waited in southern France with the desperate stolidity of animals who hear the hunter coming toward the trap. In the U. S. two committees were trying to get them out. One was the Emergency Rescue Committee, which claims to have brought to the U. S. since last July some 50 writers-in-exile, including Heinrich Mann, Franz Werfel, Konrad Heiden, Leonhard Frank. The other was the Exiled Writers Committee, a sprout of the leftist-controlled League of American Writers. The two committees seemed to be getting in each other's hair...