The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-08-11
BY FULTON THATCHER GRANT
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
PART II

involved LQ8C no SOlULlOu SEEMED QUSe
sible at all, Daudet came out with this
extraordinary fact: Chautemps, as we
hove said, was the brother -in-law Of
Pressard. Some years ago Chau-
temps sister had been married to a
certain M. Adam, project Of Provins.
At that time Pressard lived In Provins
and was active socially in that beauti-
full and historic town. He made himself
popular by brilliant receptions. Among
the guests at these receptions was Ma
dame Adam, wife Of the project and
sister of Camille Chautemps. Then
one day Prefect Adam was reported
missing. Later his body was found
o.. railroad track, mangled almost
beyond recognition, having been run
over by several trains. Three months
later Pressard married the Widow
Adam.
The similarity between the Prince
murder and the death Of Project
Adam was too obvious not to start
tongues wagging. Furthermore Press
ard was the gentleman who profited
most by the "silencing" Of Counsellor
Prince. Furthermore again, 1t was
brought out in the interrogations that
Prince and Pressard were on unsat-
isfactory terms. They had had words.
And Albert Princes famous reports to
Lescouve accused Pressard directly Of
protecting Stavisky.
Maffia! Grand Orient! Ven
delta! What Of the eight men whose
lives had been lost? The evidence
against Pressard and against the
Lodge was nothing mere than cir
cumstantial. There was, really no
evidence at all that could tie up the
Prince case-and yet the parallel was
striking.
Nor did the charges and insinua-
lions against the secret order stop
there. It was shown that Aristride
BRAND was Mason of the Lodge
There Is still in France a faction
which hates BRAND and lays at his
door all the unfortunate international
complexities into which France has
been drawn. This same faction
sees Germany and Italy as powers
hostile to the very essence Of France.
sees France disarmed and feeble
against the rising tide of Hitlerism
and Italian Fascism, helpless and
prey to these jealous nations. And
they blame BRAND for the idealism
he showed at Geneva. The point Is
not whether France should arm
against German or an italian
menace. The point is that BRAND Is
held responsible for her weakened
defence, and behind BRAND those
accusers see only the Grand Orient
and the forces Of the Left.
Operated Vast Espionage Ring
From this state Of mind 1t Is not q
far Jump to associate the astonish-
ingly broad activities Of international
espionage and the spy rings which
have been revealed recently In France.
nor yet the newly discovered traffic
In arms. And Stavisky,s name once
again bubbles up through the net
work Of these Vaccinations. There
seems to be no end, no limit to the
activities Of this Russian, no evil to
which he would not turn In his
power-mad frenzy.
Here Is the story.
Despite the fact that diplomatic
ard political Germany tried very hard
to conceal the financial scandals Of
l924-l925 in which the brothers Bar
mat were heavily involved. the news
came out and the world probably still
It hazily. These brothers
we're the sons Of q Russian father
and German mother. both Hebrews.
at least In form, the
Rothschild family. the clever and
keen minded fraternity made them
selves into q sort Of international
family Of finance. julius. the mas
;er mind Of the clan, conferred hts
activities In Berlin. Solomon IN New
York, Isaac In London and Henri In
Rome and Paris. From exporting
they soon spread into export banking.
and soon the Merken-bank and the
Preuasische- Hypoth eken-bank came
INTO existence In Germany. Then
pooling Of Ill their Interests developed
what Was known as tho Barnat Kon-
uen whose success was tremendous
Ind whose interests were unlimited.