FRANCE: Justice is Rotten

While the late Alexandre Stavisky was pawning fake royal emeralds and cheating at baccarat in 1929, French politicians were having their nightmares about the Hanau Case. Last week French Justice, nearly paralyzed by the Stavisky Case, succeeded at least in warming over the Hanau Case.

Marthe Hanau knows as much about French official corruption as anyone. A bulbous, masculine woman of strong character, she and her divorced husband founded the tipster sheet. Gazette du Franc et des Nations, in 1925, and sold $4,000,000 worth of securities to poor Frenchmen, eight of...

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