SWITZERLAND Long-distance Call...
Ever since the end of World War II the situation on the Franco-Swiss border has been touchy. Last week it was downright itchy. Over the long-distance telephone from the Swiss frontier station of Le Locle came the stationmaster's voice, cold and hollow. "French fleas," it said, "are infiltrating our border in the clothing of French railroad workers. It is a veritable invasion."
"French fleas?" came the equally chill voice of the publicity man for the French Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer. "Has some new method, then, been discovered for establishing the paternity of a flea? Do these fleas,...
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