The Seaforth News, 1960-08-11, Page 2Says She Had To
Betray Her Friends
Mathilde-Lilyarres known
"The Cat," French spy of the
secret Interallie network serv-
ing Britain during the German
Oecupation, had to return to her
former Villa at Montmartre,
whatever the risk. Among Iter
personal belongings still left
there was an important file
given her by a colleague. It was
/essential that she recover it.
On her way to the villa she
noticed groups of men hovering
about, obviously waiting for
someone. One of them approach-
ed and saki in French: "Gormen
police. Your papers, please!"
She showed him her 'identity
card, which was in order. He
*tared at . her intently, handed
it batik and sallatedelt was mere-
ly a routine check.
But as she approached the vil-
la in the rue Cortot she realized
she wee being - followed and
made for a print shop in the
Plime du 'Peters — only to find
It closed.
She retraced her steps towards
the villa. There were now men
in mufti at every corner. Mlle.
Aliee, her lodger, was. standing
at the door. What should she do?
Ignore her, or say ''Good morn -
'Olga as she passed? Why had
*he returned to this street when
she could have taken the oppo-
cite direction?
"I have no iclee," she says,
telang, her own sensational story
in "T Was the Cat" "Illy mind
was a blank. I was like an ani-
ma/ levereeized by the head-
light$ et an oncoming can"
Mlle. Alice approached, her
haggard tare betraying that a
tregedy had occurred, and em-
braced her. A German N.C.O.
sprang out of the villa:
"Madame Mathilde Carr" h*
cried. "Come with me, please ...
I suppose you know what you've
done?"
-Naturally." she replied. "It
was a great gamble and I have
hem But I'm a good gambler."
She was taken to a military
ear and driven off. It stopped
outside the secret H.Q. of the In-
terallie network, and she saw a
Violette, on the pave-
ment with a man in mufti, look-
ing in their direction. He was
obviously asking her, "Is that
'fhe Cat?" for she nodded, and
the car continued on its way.
Mathilde knew then that all
was lost. The N.C.O. told her
frankly that the whole organize -
lion Was in their hands.
They drove to the Hotel Edu-
laid VII, the German H.Q. She
was questioned for an hour, then
taken to the Sante prison. That
day in 1942 was the most fateful
and tragic of her life since, early
in the Occupation, she had met
In Toulouse a Polish fighter
pilot, Roman Czerniawski, who
had built up a spy system for
14.1.5 in the free zone and M-
ewed her to 7tar t one 111 ocet.-
paid Paris.
She had helped to develop A
into a omnplicated network
n•hich valueble information
Londoe and eabotaced
G rnn p:ans.
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erne:oyes). Soli example. was ••.1
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• in prtsou aOU know everything
and will be of invaluable essiste.
ance to me in winding up the.
Interallie cease. We are in pose
session of all the documents but
we need one of you to facilitate
arrest,'.
"I have read in your diary
that on Wednesday, leth Nevem-
you have an appointment at
eleven e'clocic at the Patn Pam
bar where you will be meeting
an agent. You will keep the ap-
pointment and I shall be with
you, You. will introduce me as
one of your band and when the
agent has committed himself
shall arrest him.
"If you play no tricks you can
be assured that you Will be at
liberty this evening. If you
dosible-croes me you will be shot
immediately. without trial."
She was horrified at the
thought of being a decoy to trap
fellow -agents, but says she had
no choice. She was in Bleicher's
power, he was virtually her
jailer, even altering quarters
with her, The only alternative
was death, so she complied.
But she played a cat and'
mouse game with them and plot-
ted to get to England by trick-
ing the Germans into believing
that she would act as their agent
there while seeming to be loyal
to the British. To this end, her
captors allowed her to be pick-
ed up by a British vessel on the
Brittany coast under cover of
darkness and taken across the
Channel.
After a brief spell of freedom
in London, helping the Allied
cause, she was arrested on or-
ders from the French and im-
prisoned for three years in
Aylesbury and Holloway. When
the war ended she was trans-
ferred to prisons in France, and
in 1949 tried for betraying her
colleagues before a jury consist-
ing of members of the Resistance
Movement, She was sentenced to
death, and committed to the con-
demned cell, chained by her an-
kles night and day and under
constant obrservation.
Later the sentence was com-
muted to tewnty years' hard la-
bour from 1942, the year of her
last betrayals. When finally re-
leased she had served twelve
years in prisons and found ref-
uge as a convert to religion.
Her lawyer, Albert Naud says:
"The Cat no longer had a choice
from the moment she had pas-
eively and under duress assisted
in the first arrest of her com-
rades, Compromised, once these
unfortunate tragedies began, she
was destined to be a traitress.
She tried desperately to find an
opportunity of regaining her
freedom, to serve once snore the
cause of France. And she was
successful."
The "diabolical spy with the
green eyes," the most notorious
since Meta Hari, was a woman
caught up in the toils of war
and doomed to suffer. That
makes her own story of her pa-
triotism and enforced treachery
all the more pitiable- and tragic.
"I tried, against public opin-
ion," Naud says, "to show her to
the jury naked and trembling, as
weak and feminine and as pathe-
tically human. as the -01 Math1de. "
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er ,Jaue AtuiDews.
Literally as cool as a cucum-
ber is this molded salad — cool
and thoroughly delicious, Soften
1 tablespoon unflavored gelatin
in 1/4 eup cold water and dis-
solve in zia cup boiling water.
Add aa cup sugar, la teaspoon
salt, 1/4 cup vinegar, and Ve cup
juice drained from canned
erushed pineapple. Cool until
mixture begins to thicken, then
add 1 cup diced, drained cucum-
ber and 1 cup drained, crushed
pineapple, Pour into a 1 -qt.
mold or individual molds. Cream
French dressing is just right on
this: blend 1 3 -oz. package cream
cheese, softened with 1 table-
spoon milk, with 1.a cup French
dressing, and beat until fluffy.
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Would you like to serve, for
dessert, a pear dusted with
sugar and spice and stuffed with
an exotic fruit mixture that
gives it an Oriental turn? This
is the way to fix it,
Stuffed Pears
Core a fresh Bartlet pear for
each person to be served. Peel
and, simmer in a syrup made
with 2 cups sugar with 3 cups
water. Cook until just barely
tender, Cool and stuff with a
mixture of chopped aprieots,
prunes, nuts and orange marma-
lade. Dust pears, after you have
fitted the halves together, with
a mixture of cinnamon, ginger
and sugar (If. your family es-
pecially likes ginger. try half-
and-half ginger and cinnamon.)
Serve immediately with thick
erearn. Serve a coelre as a ,-71.7,,s7p
to -alone.
Other Stuffing's
Snuff pears with a rage_ v: -n .5
ream and roll in grated en-
semieened chmielate.
Sefien saarp CI -kidder enrase
Wite a ereans; whip anti!
Ftir in eiteppeel nots.
Sri:if esers Stith this roixtere
era nil: an cosinse saaer.
SteSf peers wit% mixed eend
Ore eoll in a ninettme
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Belied Apples With l'eanut
Topping
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ai imp of i'aisins.
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remble. Stir in al cup Lame
seater" 1. remits, Steam tnis roar -
tun: rye: the ra:e:n
sound on top ei impice
take a: 375' F for i1: -in 1 mone
basting with the liquid every 15
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The season for Conand.
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coNcortp GRAPE PIE
Pastry etrldirust 9-ineli pie
Amps eternmed Coacord
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la cup cornstarch
Ila cups sugar
Se teaspoon salt
1 teaspoons grated orange rind
Wash grapes thoroughly. Slip
skins from pulp, reserving skins.
Heat pulp to boiling and rub
through coarse sieve to remove
aeeds. In a large saucepan,
combine cornstarch, sugar, salt
and orange rind. Add grape
pulp. Bring to boiling and cook
until thickened, stirring con-
stantly. Stir in skins and cool.
Pour into pastry lined 9 -inch
pan. Arrange top pastry over
fillings; seal and flute edges. Cut
design in top pastry to allow
steam to eseape. Bake at 450°F.
for 10 minutes. Reduce heat to
850°F, and bake 25 minutes
longer.
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For variety try a crisp or it
Fietty made with fruit—here is it
rhubarb crisp that is easy. Serve
I it hot.
RHUBARB CRISP
4 cups diced rhubarb
la cup sugar
la cup brown sugar
cup flour
1/2 cup butter
Mix rhubarb and. sugar and
put into a greased baking digit
Combine brown sugar and flour
and cut in the butter. Sprinkle
this brown sugar topping over
the fruit. Bake at 3501: for 35
minutes.
Serve this cranberry Betty
with whipped cream. It serves
CRANBERRY BETTY
1 cups cranberries
1 eup water
1. eup sugar
2 cups soft bread crumbs
2 tablespoons butter
a cup seeded raisins
Mix cranberros, same era
water and cook 10 minutes.
Placa a /eyer of breaelerumbs
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Guttered baking dish, then
aiyer of raisins, then 'a the
stewed cranberries; Coat (.0. -07 -
will half the -butter. Relva:, anti
cover '.up with bre-ad ;:ruir,bs.
rottinc ae'nbi with butter. Enke
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Cost $1000 Each
Not all of us iire born with
naturally curly hair and from
the beginning of time this same
to have been a challenge. The
female of the species has been
particularly inventive in find-
ing ways and means to "put curl
in her hair,"
Over 3,000 years ago Egyptian
women were putting up their
bair in many tight braids, which,
when combed out, left the hair
waved and slightly frizzled.
However, at around the same
period, Babylonian women were
using strange devices known as
eurling tongs or crisping irons.
These were heated over open
flames and then applied to the
hair. Curls were literally "bak-
ed" in.
While the women probably
discovered these early hair
grooming aids, the men were
quick to take over. In fact, it
w•asn't until the end of the 19th
eentury that men stopped curl-
ing and waving their hair too.
Throughout the early cen-
turies and the middle ages both
men and women wore their hair
long and elaborately arranged.
Waves, braids, spiral curls, were
all incorporated into intricate
eoiffures. For instance, in the
14th century long braids at
either side of the face were
turned up and coiled at the face
like horns, A hundred years la-
ter, it was fashionable to wear
shoulder -length hair, braid it
serves, 8. Whipped cream im-
proves it.
Banana Sponge
Mix 1 envelope unflavored
gelatin and % cup sugar in top
of double bailer; add aa cup
water, Place over boiling water
and stir until gelatin is well
dissolved, Remove from heat.
Add 1 teaspoon grated lemon
rind, 3 tablespoons lemon juice
snd 1 cup mashed bananas (2
medium). Chill until mixture
mounds slightly when dropped
from spoon. Add 2 unbeaten
egg whites, and beat with rotary
beater until mixture begins to
hold its shape. Spoon into des-
sert dishes, or into t 4 -cup
mold. Chill.
Q. How can I create my own
warning device that the water
in the bottom of my double -
boiler has boiled away?
A, A few marbles placed in the
bottom a the double -boiler will
raise enough racket when the
water is gone to summon you
to the rescue.
tj Uy tit nigh( MA eciwki
it offl, ;at° a Duffy
do in the tregi',:' e,,er, with
the •.!_massene.• new'
sty 1: tied fashions.
The marling time costlier:id AS
the principal eromoieg
augmet ted. at aiimai bit clay
pipes, which web :deo heated
and applied to the hair, Pada
and wire frames were used as
bases fol the eiiimine coiffures
which were held in IR' with
gum or a paste tudi itt,ttaccli
Inbred With pomade,
ThUreiValt011P
aid of thoice lance ea can be
thankful not 'Io have.
Due as the eetroile eloliorate-
nese . of the hair ety t., whioh
took tip to five IlOors to pre-
pare, the hair wee dressied for
a period of item two to nine
w e e itt, Underetande biy th
could rouse the wearer eeme
dIscumfart eo a daintily carved
stick with a beak at one end
was reared et ell times and
wag conveniently. ra' lied a
"scrateherl"
Many of the hair styles fess
tured flat ringlete. These were
made by applying a paste of
flour pomatum to the heir and.
twirling the curl over a flea
black taffeta cushion. This par-
ticular look was eallecl the 'Tat-
ted Coiffure" and VV:t;F, popular
in England during the mid.
1700e.
Arranging these elaborate
hairdos wess beyond the knowl-
edge of most women and it is
interesting to note that in the
year 1769 there wore 1,200 hair-
dreesers in Paris alone. Making
curls was a big business; even
then!
During the 19th century the
famous Marcel wave came into
being, named after a Perk hair-
dresser who used his curling
tongs to make evenly spaced
waves 00 the fashionable heads
of Paris. This style continued ir
popularity for m an y, many
years,
A big first in hide curling
news came in 1906. That was
the year that Charles Nestle
gave the first permanent wave
in London, England. In there
days of home permanents it le
hard to imagine that those firet
permanents took from eight to
12 hours to complete and cost
$1,000, Women had come a long
way from "setting" their heir
with braids.
Jumping to conclusions as not
half as good exercise F.F. digging.
for facts,
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