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WITH 999 APOLOGIES TO HEATH ROBINSON (Thoro are 999 persons on, the staff of the Ministry of Information)
Strube in the London "Daily Express"
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Asking For Trouble
of
ITHERTO there has been an
inclination to dismiss reports internal dissension within the Wilhelmstrasse and the German army as propagandin, but the well. authenticated press reports from neutral
sources proclaiming the arrest and detention of former
still
don't
know the truth
THAT are the Ger-
W
man people think- ing about this Commander-in-Chief Field Marshal war? Not the party von Blomberg and five other high officials left to keep watch German army officers, as well as
the highly mysterions death of upon the civil population,
during the present crisis.
-by-
G. Ward Price:
re-
"UIJT JT JO D JQIFS"
"this
is in cipher"
(but one of the simplest of all ciphers, drar to schoolboys. Do you see how it works?*}
(AYBE it is simple.
MA
But if
you tried to send
а cable like this from Hongkong you'd be pulled up quickly,
Cipher is hard to break, un- less you have the key. But the British Intelligence Department broke the strongest German ciphers during the last war.
It deals with all types of codes and ciphers,
The difference between a code und
whole sen-
General von Fritsch, leaves little but the ordinary, stay-at- Fuhrer das ist ein Mann! He instincts of the rank and file of room for doubt that Hitler Is find-home citizen, too old to have knows what he is about! Sham- the country will be without suc ing it Increasingly difficult to get been called up yet, who is berlang und Daladier what can cess so long as Germany along with those who would nor consequently carrying on they do against him? First be mains flushed with victory. The a cipher is this: In a code, a code- mally be regarded as indispensable his job as shopkeeper or conquers Poland; then he turns German who is not gripped by word (four, five or seven letters
craftsman, or farmworker? on France and England, who will the party machine, however, is long) stands for maybe It appears that von Blomberg is
our likely to become pacific when ence of messige, whereas a cipher
is a felter-for-letter affair. What is he saying over his either have to submit to
You usually need a code book or to become another victim of Hitler's 20-per-cent-watered beer while terms ar be smashed to pieces." things begin to go wrong for his extraordinary whims. By 1978 he he sits at his Stammtisch?—as
dictionary for codes, and the code- And the rest of the evening hind already thrown over the one they call a table reserved for & would be devoted to discussion
It would be too much to ex-book can only hold a limited num
ter of phrases. "man"whoTMlind-made"the"allegiance particular set of customers. ---- of how Germany could best pect any weakening of spirit-in-Ciphers express more exact shades"
of the Reichswahr to Nazism possi- In Nazi eyes, these older peo- divide up the British Empire.
Germany now, for she is at the of meaning, and so you can iako It ble. The pretext was laughable ple count only as citizens of the
climax of her material prepara- that Hitler's message was sent in for its flimsiness. Von Blomberg second class, yet, in a long war,
tions and moral fortitude, We cipher rather than in code.
The British ciphers and codes are intervals in apparently had incensed some of it is they-the people who keep the younger offleers because he the factories, mines,, and food..
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xide.
successes against the in a few months' time.
IN view of the Army's shall reach our own pealt only changed at irregular
order to keep foreign secret services would not conform to the army's crops going-whose endurance Poles, public morale in Germany The advantage of this situa- guessing. matrimonial code. Hitler therefore will matter more than any other is probably better than it was tion lies with Britain, Among The Foreign Offler uses code in- discarded overnight his most power-element of national defence. when the war began, six wecka Us, limitations of supplies and stead of cipher for shorter routine
The Polish victory has vexations of control have yet to messages.
over there they prefers code, which shortens mes party-for few of them had convinced the German people begin, while
sages most conveniently, came to that all is going according to have been operating for
The Navy prefers code because it is very hard to "break.” (Even power, and now only the young Hitler's infallible plan.
eligible-they have
ful ally of 1932, and by so doing aroused the ire and dislike of the majority of Von Blomberg's con- temporaries with whom he was a firm favourite. It was Von Blem-
Not being members of
joined before Hitler
are
the ago.
not
time.
immediate
At this stage no sworn the oaths or experienced bery who made it possible for the strict schooling of Nazi dis- result can be expected, there Hitler to dispose of General von cipline. Of course, they greet fore, from the dropping of pro- Schleicher and his wife during the cach other with Heil Hitler, and paganda pamphlets over Ger- is brutal 1934 purge, and for the first are always ready to hang out many.
six years of Hitler's reign did everything he could to bring the
Reichswehr in closer relation to the Nazi Party. The result was lose of
among personal popularity
his colleagues, and as a final humilia- tion, disownment by Hitler.
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flags to order, since that is ele mentary prudence in Germany.
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the THEY belong to
type of whom their Blockwarte, or local party su pervisor, reports to his chiefs politisch gut-gosinnt, or politi that they are respectable and
cally well-disposed.
to
The methods are typical of the German dictator. He did the same with Rochm, his best friend, and it seems he has knifed in the back
Such people have only the Von Fritsch, another gallant officer German wireless and the stereo- whose loyalty to the German State typed Press to tell them what is has never been questioned.
going on, and there can be no These barbarie methods of doubt that to their simple minds eliminating internal
embarrass Germany's war-plans seem ments have s0 far succeeded, but have been crowned with success. Hitler seems to be in danger of
They think they are seeing confusing the effect of his Party fulfilment of the Fuhrer's pro- purge of 1934 with a military purgo mise-a cheap and short war of of 1939. He will awaken to his conquest in the East, with tho when he finds that the German "Weat Wall," as thoy Rolchswehr, although perhaps now call the Siegfried Line, se- capable of potty jealousles, is just curely holding their adversaries as Jealous for its own good pame, at bay in the West.
"Mensch, ich sage Dirl" I and the good name of its high of- ficers. Hitler may imagine that he can almost hear them saying, can take supreme command of the with portentous earnestness and Gorman army, but he will never bulging eyes, "I tell you, the
error
be allowed to do
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Hitler before permitting the world to believe that there is a vital wonk
Reichswehr, who are still powerful wehr is more likely to depose to make or break the dictator.
The Reichswehr are fully award that army purges in the middle of acss in the Gorman Military Ma chine, and Hitler will be seeking a much earlier doom than awaits him
a war are a real sign of weakness;
In this case it is not the wash at the hands of the Allies if he per
of the army or its leaders, but of Hitler, the dicintor. Tho Reicha
mis his petty whims to take pre- cedence in such vital decisions,
Appeals to the pacific
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some
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The Secret Service also-
If one word is decoded the other words may remain hidden).
The Army prefera cipher-the-
danger of code-books falling into
Since the 1914-10 war,
dpher- writing machines have come" out. You type on them as if you were using a typewrlier, but certain nd- justable coga and cams turn your message into cipher-so effectively that the tell-tale letters "th" (whose constant reappearance Is. the give- nway to many of the simpler "cip- hers) will not havo the Fame equivalents more than once in 500 times.
entmy hands is too great.
But these machines will nover bo csing followers of the Army.
Besides being heavy to move around they need plenty of electri- city-nat easily ald to the front
line.
Making new ciphers needs ingen- ulty, but making new codes may in- volve three to four years hard work. So says Mr. Ernest Quick, seventy- two-year-old_director of one of the most successful commercial shipping codes.
Quick, bom in Fetter-lane, was 'gold prospector at nineteen. He then went round the world selling mops and codo books to shipping companies.
The code in which he is interested hus 530,000 different phrases, includ- Ing 4,500 on oll, 130,760 on names of porta with combinations, 1,524 phrases on Danzig, and mathematical percentage tables.
.
The code book costs £8 a copy.. Phrases for it were taken from or- dinary business correspondence. took four years to sort them out and code them.'
It
Mr. Quick also sells coda books which you can fill in with your own phrases (42), or you can, have a private cipher. Many bushen men have one which they change overy: week or so.
in
But, in war - time, the censor steps:
•Put 'each; totter back, ma in' thei alphabet.