EMIGRATION: Stable Door Closers

Last January Baron Franz von Werra, captured Nazi pilot, escaped from Canada to the U.S. Last week he escaped from the U.S. The Canadians had at least made it hard for him to get away.

Held in the U.S. for deportation, under $15,000 bond, Werra stayed in the Westchester home of a German consular agent, was kept "under surveillance" by Department of Justice agents. Recently these hawkshaws, checking up, were told that the Baron had gone South on a hunting trip. Actually, he had sailed for Peru, on a Swiss passport, three weeks...

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