Cézanne's canvas, The Bathers. The truth is that I never saw or talked to Vollard about this painting. I bought it from a Paris dealer, now a refugee in New York. I hold the canceled check payable to that dealer, and I have his affidavit that McCardle's published story is false in every detail.
These are but a few of the many falsehoods which occur on practically every page of McCardle's articles as they appear in the Post. Indeed, many of the incidents and events, and most of the quotations attributed to me in McCardle's articles, I learned for the first time in the galley proofs.
After I had possession of convincing evidence of McCardle's intention to make up a lurid, sensational, false account of my activities, I informed him by telephone on the morning of February the 9th, that if he did not show me the copy of his articles immediately, my attorneys would take appropriate action. As a result of this message, McCardle
