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HONGKONG (TELEGRAPHICS October 22, 1940.
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MAGAZINE PAGE
FIFTH
COLUMN
MINORITIES PAVED THE WAY
By Col. William J. Donovan and Edgar Mowrer
Adolf Hitler's blitz-con- quests of Poland, of Norway, of Belgium, Holland, Luxem- burg, and France are military masterpieces.
In all secrecy and with in- credible speed the Nazi leader built up a unique military machine, beside, which all other armies in the world were obsolete. Basing his organi- zation upon experience ae- quired in Spain during the civil war, Hitler placed at the head of his mobilized masses a modern "airplane-plus tank"
German The spearhead. masses were not particularly not impressive. They did
be. It was the need to spearhead of 50,000 men that beat France,
To his superior striking power the Nazi leader added surprise and audacity. Equip- ping dive bombers with noise makers sounds childish, but against green troops It worked. By striking suddenly, fiercely and without regard for his own immediate losses, Hitler gained an initiative he never lost.
Yet no amount of genius would have accomplished what the Germans accomplished in so short a time without two other elements. These were the Germans
and abroad sympathizers in the victim countries,
Everyone understands the role played by the Sudeten Germans in the destruction of Czechoslovakia. While claim- ing to be loyal citizens of the new state, an active minority of the Germans was really working for its destruction.
As in Czechoslovakia, so in Poland. There a tiny minority, probably about a million in all, while claiming to be loyal to Warsaw, were preparing to stab Poland in the back.
Directed by the German Gestapo, organized into poli- tical groups, the Deutsche Vereiningung and the Young German Party, the minority leaders found means rorizing or otherwise inducing practically all the Germans to become spies and agents.
of ter-
As industrialists, commer- cial travellers, waiters, bar- bere, taxi drivers, they wormed their way into Polish life. Some 10,000 were actually trained in special camps in Germany to be forerunners, agents and guides to the invading army columns. The Germans were more quickly informed of the Polish mili- than the tary movements Polish commanders.
On the eve of the war these
specially coached Germans,
Col. KNOX
made
arnies would have exhausted the German blitz units and long necessary.
.
over the Albert Canal, Belgium's Arst and chief line of defence. thanks to which both Belgium and Holland were
cosy doomed 10 conquest. There was no need for them,
The Thousands of dissatisfied Flemings of the Dinase' (Dielsche Nutianale Solidaristen) and the members of Leon Degrelle's Nexist Party saw to that.
But the 80,000, reinforced by the usual diplomatic, newspaper, artis- tie and business propaganda
and espionage corps from Germany, played a powerful part in building up and franching these treasonable Belgian organizations, and in in- fluencing important persons in a sense favourable to Germany. The King final astounding decision of Albert to surrender in full battle cannot be ascribed to purely Bel- gian influences.
Nor, in France, would the de- cision of Petain. Weygand, Bau- douin and Laval to lay down their arms and seek salvation in French submission to the Nazis have been possible without the long and tire- less cilvity in that country of such
This Is the first of a series of articles recently made public by the United States Secretary of the Nuvy Knox As part of the National Defence programme, In a foreword, Secretary Knox wrote:
"At my request Col. William J. Donovan went to London. In London he was met by the veteran foreign correspondent, Edgar Mowrer, who had just reached Lon- don following the French debacle.
"These two men, on behalf of the United States, made the most thoroughgoing survey of German fifth column methods used in weakening resistance of possi bie enemies and undermining the morale of countries they proposed to attack.
"The results of this careful study, made with every official source available to these two men, are to be found in the series of articles which follow. They-are designed to make Americans fully conscious of methods used by the totalitarian powers, so that if or when such methods are used here they will instantly be recognized for what they are and their effect nullified.
"I regard defence against possible enemy propa. ganda as second only to defence against enemy arma- ments."
German "intellectuals"
as Fre- derich Sieburg and Otto Abetz, recent Nazi appointee to the Ger- man ambassadorship at Vichy.
hud, for a long time, been fully aware of the dangers.
OKAY.. LET'S GO!
In the first 24 hours of the war. some 400 German Nazi agents were whole There was no chance
put out of the way. The for the
number of Hitler-Germans were Germans in Great Britnin to show
then either expelled or arrested and their hand. In the first place Britain's island situation saved it a great number of the anti-Hitlerlan from any Gurprise attack. And German refugees as well-some say secondly, the British secret service up to 90 per cent.
lor and exhaustive campaign"TO SLEEP, PERCHANCE TO DREAM"
Practically no Germans lived in
Norway. But if the Norwegians G
had been suspicious of all Germans, including German visitors, Norway might not be occupied to-day.
Trondheim, Bergen and. Staven- ger, with air fields whose posses- sion later enabled the Germans to fight off the Aliles, fell to attacks by German soldiers hidden in the holds of merchant ships anchored
the fjords or moored-off-the- quayside,
There is no evidence that the Germans in Denmark took any con- siderable part in the actual German conquest of that country, 11 is certain, however, that German agents a Copenhagen disguised as newspaper men, businessmen and diplomats, by their constant threats and interference with the Danish government, had produced a state of 'mind bordering on terror that contributed to drive any thought of real resistance from the Danish mind.
Germans hidden in barges seized the Moordyke Bridge in. Holland, which enabled the German invaders to turn the Dutch defences from the south. This was decisive.
But 120,000 Gerinans resident in the little country occupied a con- siderable share of the Dutch armed force and made
that conquest much easier. The 120.000 occupied their leisure in propaganda and espionage for the Nazis.
Two hundred and fifty enjoyed extra-territorial privileges
bers
of
as mem-
of the · German legation in the lugue alone, without counting the officials in the various consulates. Fifty or a hundred so-called news- papermen spent most of their time
ស wandering the country bent
research. strategic and economic German servants Dearly every-
amaserd where carefully
blts of private or copied conversation papers.
When Hitler Anally struck, the 120,000 turned on their placid hosts where they could, shot them down.
produced Practically oll
red identification cards which procured them the respect and co-operation of the German officers. In Rotter dam they utilized private wireless
acting under direct orders-senders supplied by the Nazi Party.
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from Berlin, picked quarrels with Poles in order to create frontier and other "incidents."
Other Germans disguised Polbiz
soldlors spread panic Germans through the villages.
Polish issued false speaking Instructions and orders to the others people by wireless. Still remained deep behind the lines and from there signalled objectives and Instructions to German air men.
Germans have admitted that two weeks of resistance by the Polish
Everywhere they served an guides and advisers for parachutists and it was no fault of theirs that the Queen of Holland, the members of the Dutch Government
and a setreted list of patriolle Dutchmen were not all seized by air raiders and taken to Germany the first day, of attack.
The 00,000 Germans living la Belgium do not seem to have taken any particular part in the treason- able fallure to destroy the bridges
ETTING to sleep, and stäy
ing in that pleasant state, presents a problem for us all in these nights. There are plenty of suggestions, from a hot drink to a herb-scented pillow, but have you ever tried a little mental exercise??
I don't mean counting innumer- able solemn-faced sheep, but going a walk up your favourite glen, elimbing your favourite hill, break, ing 70 on the golf course. fishing your favourite river.
Whlchever you choose, i must be done thoroughly. You must see the wild foxgloves by the roadside, the jolly brown and white calf in the field, the mavis digging for worms on the sixth green, the blue flash of a kingßsher at the water- side.
The other evening returning from A.R.P. duty, I thought what a grand night it would be for a cast. So after putting my clothes in their correct order by my bed, and tucking myself in, I was soon wending my way through a 'dark green wood to the river.
To use present-day jargon, this river is "gonewhere in Roxburgh- shire' is not very broad or im- posing, but It is a gay river, nearly always laughing over its white stones. Sometimes it is coy and
the trailing shy, hiding under alders, but just as you are getting into its quiet, demure mood, off It goes, again in u clear stream of mirth.
This night I started from a fat, calm stretch. There was enough light to see the les dancing over it, and to get my cast ready.
As
I sat on the mossy tree trunk-- how many years hinsi lain there, I wonder?-I could hear the fas- clanting plop and splash of a "rise," then again, and agalo! Everything pointed to a good catch!
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With the reel making that sweet- ly rasping noise no dear to the faher, Wetted the line and started casting. Almost at once there was a tug, but he was too quick for me. I tried the exact spot again but, of course, he was expecting it and did not venture.
I made my way upstream, dis- Lurbing bleeping water-hens which fultered noisily through the water to the other aide. Not far off a
·
heron squawked, and a white owi alded silently overhead. I could feel the smell always connect with this river, à curious mixture of earth, gorlle, mint, and wel red clay.
was all-tangled in the reeds at my feet and nearly got away.
In a distant farm steading a cock was crowing, and in the sky the dawn, a pearly pink band, was breaking. T took down my rod and packed up. In the fields the grass,
sheep were cropping the In one of the singing streams i
busy and greedy. Do they never took a nice trout, maybe half-a-
for sleep? I walked along the pound, and then another. I imagin- sulet stul,cond and surned a cor- ed them, white and luscious, clone
ner. There was a house, with a in oatineal, in the morning!
hawthorn bower over the gate, und a white porch.
There was a swishing of grass on the bank opposite, and I could make out the lumbering forms of some entile which had gathered to watch me, solemn and silent.
1 fished on for another hour or so, my basket becoming pleasantly welghty. It had been a good night, with plenty of sport and excite- ment, especially when that big one
"Couldn't sleep for these 'planes parading about all night!" someone sald crossly at breakfast.
"Never heard 'em!" I said, at- tacking my ration of bacon, and thinking how nearly it was a Juley red-spotted trout!
TELEPATHY AND THE WAR
"My husband is coming
AL
home." says a war wife, suddenly. A mother cries, “I know my boy is safe!" The other day It was reported that woman had known by instinct that her R.A.F. brother was a prisoner of war near Hamburg. War Office. Information later proved her correct.
How many sailars' wives, I won- der, claim to know exactly what is happening to their men-folk? How many soldiers' grass widows trust their intuition more than the tele- phone? Wor fosters a sixth sense which has puzzled scientists for years.
Scientists may be able to clear up the riddle to telepathy, this silent cornmunication of mind to mind, heart to heart. There are many authenticated cases.
Only a Rehearsal
A London woman evacuated to Wiltshire told her neighbours that her husband had just come safely through the ruins of an air-rald, No doubt they scoffed.
There had of course, been no air-raid on London. But it was later found that, unknown to his wile, the husbarid had, joined the A.R.P. and at the hour of her men- sugo had taken part in rehearsels
buildings under
demolition.
In
Some telepathle vision of these half-demolished houses had been communicated to the woman,. and Bho had heraclt filled in the idea of a rald. Many such cases are re- ported.
Investigators in the past six years have conducted more than 500,000 tests to see whether this unwritten
communication of the mint could be definitely established. They be- gan with packs of cards printed in various symbols, stars, crosses, and
so on.
Card by card, a "receptive tele- pathist" told what the "iransmitter telepathist" was thinking. In the same room, through 950 callings of the pack, he averaged 14 correct in n pack. When he sat in the next room his average rose to 14.6.
When he sat two rooms away, his average was 18 cards right in 25. At 250 miles away, he still averaged 10.1 cards correct,
Seeing the Thought-Wave
In an Everest expedition before the war an effort was made to project news across 10,000 miles on a certain day every month, with astonishing success, Mrs. Charlotte Haldane, the recipient, achieved 50 per cent results.
Once she dreamed that she re- reived three letters from the ex- pedition, and found that the enve-.
"Yes," lopes had been split open,
she thought "the coolles bave open- ed them to steal the stamps." Three
months later she learned that let- ters from the expedition had indeed been stolen,
At Cambridge University two ex* perimenters have photographed the passage of thougift by recording
electric Im and amplifying the
An- pulses sent out by the brain. other scientist belleves that he has seen the thought waves.
The late Dr. Kilner, of St. Thomas's Hospital, sensitised his ofler eyes with dicyanin, and patient experiment saw, na. he claimed the rays of the aura, the strange emanation from the human body. One of his successors claim- ed to have distinguished waves from the brain isoll.
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