ARMY & NAVY: Espionage

ARMY & NAVY

When someone describing himself as "Mr. Weston, Under Secretary of State telephoned the U. S. Passport Bureau in Manhattan last fortnight and asked that 50 blank passports be sent to him at a midtown hotel, agents of the Department of Justice followed the shipment. Well they might, for the Under Secretary of State is Mr. Sumner Welles. The trail led from the hotel to a bar, to a brush-headed young man named Guenther Gustave Rumrich. Mr. Rumrich—born in Chicago to Austrian parents 27 years ago and a deserter from the U....

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