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In 1915 German Military Attaché Franz von Papen was expelled from the U.S. for plotting an invasion of Canada, suborning disloyal Germans and Irishmen, blowing up ships, docks, munitions factories, and workingmen with an inept abandon that even a foreign government's official spy is not permitted to indulge. Ever since then, Americans have followed Papen's activities with a somewhat surreptitious personal interestlike that taken in a classmate who was expelled from school.
It has not always been easy to follow Papen. The sartorially perfect diplomat, who (in everything...