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INTERNATIONAL: Scares and Scares

War scares and spy scares go hand in hand. Both sides of the Atlantic last week saw a noteworthy outcropping of the latter.

>The French Line put special guards on watch over the liner Normandie at Le Havre after the Paris mysteriously burned (see p. 64).

>A French firing squad, for the second time within a month, destroyed a spy, this time a German gardener at Vendenheim near Strasbourg, who muttered: "I did not know it was so serious."

>In Berlin two youths convicted of selling military secrets to unnamed foreign agents were...

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