P

P., Dr., 160 , 164

P., Eugène, 131 , 164

Paasen, Pierre van, 340

Pacific War (1937-1945), 64 , 113 , 247 -48, 255 , 266 , 317 , 320

Padlevskii-Seliverstov affair, 28 -29, 225 -26

Pagès, Emile, 275

Pai-ling-miao, 296 , 326

Palen, Lewis Stanton, 279 -80

Palestine, 105 -6, 115 , 261 , 317 , 320

Pamirs, 271 , 273 , 281 , 284 -86, 292 , 295 , 302

Pan-Islam, 58 , 60 , 62 -63, 70 , 81

Pappenheim, Major von, 259 -60

parachutists and paratroops, 13 , 16 -18, 19 , 99 , 155

Paris-Soir , 223 , 226 -27, 228 , 233 ;

and Allard, 214 ;

on Basil Thomson, 55 ;

on Matuska, 216 -17;

on Mermoz, 202 ;

and Miller kidnapping, 230 ;

on Reiss assassination, 217 -18;

and Richard, 198 ;

on Schulz, 213 ;

on Trebitsch Lincoln, 266

Paschkowski (in Riga), 78 , 84

Pastuchin (White Russian), 141

Pavelic, Ante, 87 , 124 , 125 -26, 127

Payot (publisher), 177

Pearson (intriguer), 250

Peary, Robert, 282 , 301

Pecqueur, Lieutenant Commander, 290 , 291 , 293 , 294

Peking, 249 , 263 , 280 , 288 , 312 , 315 ;

Andrews in, 284 ;

Bertrand in, 326 ;

and Croisière jaune, 281 , 291 , 296 , 300 ;

in Kessel, 328 ;

and Ossendowski, 279

Peking-to-Paris race, 281 -82, 319

Percec, Gustave, 125 , 126 , 308

Pershing, General John, 46

Persia, 300 ;

and Croisière jaune, 294 , 317 ;

espionage in, 261 , 262 ;

and false papers, 162 ;

hotels in, 313 ;

in Loti, 331 ;

in spy literature, 344 ;

in World War I, 53 -55, 270 , 271 , 274 , 284 , 285 .

See also Teheran

Pertevic, Ivan, 125

Petit Journal, Le , 25 , 214 , 225 , 226 , 266 , 319

Petit Parisien, Le : circulation, 225 , 349 n;

and Demaitre enquête , 234 ;

and espionage 1870-1914, 25 ;

on Haardt, 301 ;

sample headlines from, 223 -24

Petropavlovsky, (engineer), 291 , 293 , 297 -98

Petrov, von (White Russian), 138

pilots. See aviators

Pinon, René, 334

Pioneer's Inn, 296 , 326

Plevitzkaïa, La, 135 , 136 , 230 , 231 -32

Plisnier, Charles, 249

Pogorelec, Jelka, 126 , 308

Poincaré, Raymond, 222

Point, Victor, 290 -93, 296 -98, 326 , 397 n120

Poland, 71 , 81 , 129 , 221 , 294 , 318 -19, 321 ;

and German sabotage in World War II, 17 -18, 100 , 155 ;

and gunrunning, 110 ;

and Jews, 147 , 159 ;

and Holocaust, 145

Poliakova, Marie Josefovna, 107 -8

police, British, 2 , 263 . See also Scotland Yard

police, Dutch, 263

police, French, 1 , 3 , 26 , 83 , 103 , 243 ;

and Alice L., 80 ;

and Andlauer, 38 ;

and arrests, 91 ;

in Asia, 251 , 263 ;

and assassinations in Marseilles, 87 -88;

1870-1914, 37 ;

and counterintelligence, 102 -3;

and false papers, 71 ;

and foreign police (1870-1914), 29 -30;

and German intelligence, 170 ;

and Green Gang, 244 ;

and gunrunning, 111 , 117 , 119 ;

on Ladoux, 197 ;

and microbe affair, 219 -20;

and Miller kidnapping, 231 ;

and railroads, 307 ;

and refugees, 121 , 127 , 146 , 148 -51, 157 , 158 , 164 -65, 166 -68;

and sabotage in Poland, 18 ;

in Shanghai, 248 ;

and Tamborini, 95 ;

and terrorism in France, 83 -84, 95 -96, 125 , 127 ;

and warnings of sabotage, 156 ;

on White Russians, 136 -37, 138 -39;

and World War I internments, 153

police, German: 1870-1914, 28 -29, 121 -22;

and GPU, 169 ;

and traffic in false papers, 160 .

See also Gestapo

police, Hungarian, 87 -88

police, Italian, 30 , 87 , 122 , 169 . See also OVRA

police, Romanian, 132 , 155 , 347 n

police, Russian. See Okhrana

police, secret, 65 , 109 , 120 , 121 -122. See also Gestapo; GPU; Okhrana; OVRA

police, Soviet. See GPU

police, Spanish, 1

police, Yugoslav, 91 , 125 -26, 308

police informants, 32 , 74 , 84 , 89 , 91 , 156 , 163

Police Magazine , 213 , 228

Pontarlier, 31 , 150

Popowitsch, Frau von, 91 -92

Popular Front, 80 , 146

Poretsky, Elizabeth, 138

Port Said, 261 -62, 308

Portugal, 2 , 48 , 60

Pospisil (Ustasha), 123 , 125 -26

Postwar Army of Crime, Cocaine, and Espionage, The. See Nadaud, Marcel

POUM (Partido obrero de unificación marxista), 96

present-mindedness, 6 , 66 , 80 , 340 ;

and adventure, 304 ;

and consumerism, 211 , 233 ;

and espionage, 178 , 214 , 322 , 325 , 343 , 349 -50;

and journalism, 214 ;

and romanticism, 327 ;

and travel, 322

press, 7 , 11 -12;

and foreign news, 214 , 227 , 313 ;

interwar changes in, 226 -28;

and Jewish refugees, 148 ;

and pre-1914 espionage, 25 -26, 29 , 225 -26.

See also consumerism; foreign correspondents; journalism; journalists; sensationalism

priests. See clergy

Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion, The , 181 -82

Prouvost, Jean, 228

Przhevalskii, N., 272

purge trials, 12 , 16 , 66 ;

in spy literature, 210 , 211 , 235