Milk Teeth & Spies

In Paris the trial of assorted spies for Germany and Russia who were betrayed to the Surete Nationale by their friends, Mr. & Mrs. Robert Gordon Switz of East Orange, N. J. (TIME, March 26, 1934, et seq.), buzzed on last week. Two star female prisoners continued to rely for acquittal on daily exhibitions in court of babies born to them in jail.

Since the Soviet Union seems to be the chief culprit,and since Paris is now flirting with an alliance with Moscow, the prosecution proceeded half-heartedly and Judge Revol seemed content to let his spy trial become a baby show, with beaming French policemen stumbling about with bottles, diapers, rattles and wraps, chortling: "Ah, le petit! Now he sucks his thumb!"

By accident or design, Lawyer Berthon, marking his points slowly with outstretched forefinger, suddenly found it in the mouth of one of the babies and cried "ouch!" In London this made the headline-of-the-week in Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express: BABY BITES LAWYER AT FRENCH SPY-GANG TRIAL. In Paris tender newshawks reported gushingly upon the infant and how it had just cut four milk teeth.

Sympathy for the Switzes, strong when they were supposed to be undergoing a French third degree, evaporated as Mrs. Switz appeared hard and swank in a costume from the Rue de la Paix and Mr. Switz slouched in the witness chair, reeling off sums of money which he said he paid to spies. Said the Switzes: "We did it all for France." Thus far their peaching has been valuable enough to bring them definite assurances that they will merely be deported.

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