McGuinness Got Around

What happened to McGuinness was a subject better left undiscussed. A censor slashed his name from a Dail report. No more than a hundred men in Ireland knew last week that Captain Charles McGuinness of the Marine Corps was in quod.

Patriot, adventurer and scalawag, McGuinness has run rum into the U.S., guns into Ireland for the I.R.A. and into Morocco for the Riffs. In the days of the Trouble he rescued Frank Carty, now government whip, from Londonderry jail, later accompanied Admiral Byrd to the South Pole.

Built like a barge, sullen-faced and stormy-eyed, McGuinness was just the man for dangerous work in World War II. The government commissioned him to run cargoes of wood pulp and vital necessities from Sweden under a secret agreement with Germany that the ships would not be sunk. McGuinness did better. He bargained on his own to carry I.R.A. and Nazi agents back & forth via Sweden, was all set to smuggle a German parachutist, Hans Marschner, back to Germany, when the government smelled a rat.

Raiding the home of Mrs. Kathleen Brugha, detectives found Parachutist Marschner. He had been hiding there since March, when the I.R.A. helped him to escape from Mountjoy Prison. They did not arrest Mrs. Brugha, widow of General Cathal Brugha, onetime De Valera defense minister who died a hero's death in 1922. But they did arrest Mrs. Brugha's pretty daughter, Noinin. And they picked up enough evidence on McGuinness to put him away for seven years.

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