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Italy. When Juif s wife, not hearing from him, sought
information about his whereabouts, she wrote to Boccalaro, since
she knew he was working with the Genoa director. The Italian
San Remo,
papers had announced the finding of his body; nevertheless, on
March 3, Boccalaro wrote to the murdered man s widow:
"Your husband,
my dear friend, is carrying on a special and
delicate mission (perhaps in Spain or Germany) and has special
reasons of a delicate nature not to inform even his own family
where he
at the present moment."
is
men whom
Juif met before he was murdered was
director of the Maritime and River Transport
Deloncle,
Among
the
Eugene
Mortgage Company and one of the most important
in France.
name
of
whom
Deloncle, a high
"Grosset"
the
official
in his conspiratorial activities.
murdered Juif met
industrialists
in the Cagoulards, used the
The
other
man
General Edouard Arthur Du-
is
and Military Adviser to the
French Air Ministry. The General is one of the military heads of
the Cagoulards and frequently met with Baron de Potters.
seigneur, former Air Force chief
The
Surete Nationale, the French Intelligence Service, and the
examining magistrate have documentary evidence that Germany
Italy were and are deliberately conspiring to throw France,
as they did Spain, into a civil war. Publication of these docu
and
ments would have far-reaching
effects,
internally
and
externally.
Great Britain, however, planning to establish a four-cornered pact
between England, France, Germany and Italy, brought pressure
to bear
Cagoulards.
French
to suppress further disclosures about the
England s pressure was added that of leading
upon France
To
industrialists, financiers,
government and army
officials.
Gradually, news about the Cagoulards is dying out. The real
heads of the Hooded Ones either have not been named or, if
arrested in the early days of the investigation, have been released
on bail. And recruiting for the underground army is still going on.