Once again last week the indefatigable Paris-Soir produced a first-rate scandal which, like last winter's government-inspired international spy scare (TIME, March 26, April 2), distracted Frenchmen from the malodorous Stavisky scandal. The Soir's story:
On March 12 the Optimist, a tiny German freighter of only 318 tons, warped into a quay at Rotterdam from Hamburg. Dutch stevedores hustling aboard some additional cargo got a good look at the cargo already aboard : cases of rifles, cart ridges, hand grenades, several rolls of barbed wire and a camp forge. After two weeks in port,...
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