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““" Veoation during the ware Mrs. REBACK etated that yos§7she and her husbeit 0 On september 12 and 15, 1947, re ConETRERACK, 128° Greenway Road, Regerteville » New York, furnished this office with the following inforzation ‘concerning MADAME MARGUERITE COUPERUS, which indicates that she may not be who ; .8he claims to bes” Mree REBACK is the novelist, TAYLOR“ CALDWELL, and her husband, MAS MARCUSTREBACK, is employed as a Naturalization "gxeminer, Tami gration: end “Natural ization Service, Jackson Building, Buffalo. = . Madame COUPERUS visited the REBACKS from Septenber | 6 to Septenber 9 >. .1947, She was allegedly touring this cowmtry in the capacity ofa Dutch singer, ., oelebrating the Dutch Centennial, and made trips to Grand Rapids, Chicago, - Detroit and New York City, where she claimed to have contacted prominent people Ean ge by means of introductory letters from people in Hollend. Madame COUPERUS . ; -,; visited the REBACKS to deliver en antique squf box on behalf of an admirer of a? Holland. Mrs. REBACK hed been eae eT oe with Medeme de Villeneuve, for the . past yeer, although she has never met her. A series of incidents arcse while Maden COUPERUS was & ‘guest ‘at the wes not all. "that she pretended to be, and they felt she may” be > Ampergonating. the a real Undame COUPERUS. ie Madame COUPERUS told Mrs. REBACK that her novels were “popular in Hollend:; ‘whereas, Mrs. REBACK advised that, although her novels were populer in Germany, ., they were never popular in Hollend, and she doubted if th y had ever been dis- _trituted in Holland. Although Madame COUPERUS claimed ati ee Dutch citizen and. ‘actually had a Ihitch passport, she spoke Dutoh with a Ge ay Dats and- spoke * ~ perfect German. This was particularly =H Te ED: tone 10 wy Madame COUPERUS wore a dog tag bearing £hO? WPeciot mann oe ris O7- 120". This dog tag was made of a light-appeering me Bim the (ALuminyn . or /silve end was worn by Madame COUPERUS on her wrist. The WY F\oleimed this was: given: her by the Germans when she was @ prisoner in a concentration camp in an Jminown ’. who had given her a fancy dog tag, when the usual procedure, as far as’, : mows wes for the Germans to an or tattoo the pine with a nit ‘pp "COPIES DESTROYED. Ae i q anid § 172 MAY 23 1900