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October 22, 1940.
By Walt Disney
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THE 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- eredible 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 ac- quired in Spain during the civil war, Hitler placed at the head of his mobilized masses a modern "airplane plus tank" spearhead.
German . The masses were not particularly
did impressive. They
not need to be. It was the spearhead of 50,000 men that beat France.
To his superior striking power the Nazi lender 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 abroad and 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 poll- tical groups, the Deutsche Vereinigung and the Young German. Party, the minority
leaders found means of ter- rorizing or otherwise inducing practically all the Germans to become sples and agents.
As industrialists, commer- cial travellers, waiters, bar- bers, 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.
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On the eve of the war these specially conched Germans, acting under direct orders from Berlin, picked quarrels with Poles in order to create frontler and other "incidents."
Germans disguised Other
ns Polisti soldiers, spread · panic through the villages Germans speaking Polish Issued false Instructions and orders to the others people by wireless. Sill remained deep behind the lines and from there algnalled objectives and Instructions to German air men.
Germans have admitted that two weeks of resistance by the Polish
Col, KNOX
armies would have exhausted the German blitz units and made a
exhaustive long and
campaign necessary.
Practically no Germans lived in Norway. But if the Norwegians had been suspicious of all Germans, including German visitors, Norway might not be occupied to-day,
Trondheim, Bergen and Staven- ger, with air felds whose posses- slon Inter enabled the Germans to fight off the Allies, fell to attacks by German soldiers hidden in the holds of merchant ships_anchored In the fjords or moored out the quayside.
There is no evidence that the Germans in Deninarit took any con- siderable part in the actual German conquest of Uluat country. It is German rlain, however, that agents n Copenhagen disguised as newspaper men, businessmen and diplomats, by their constant threats
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Interference with the Danish government, had produced a state of mind bordering on terror that contributed to drive any thought of rent resistance from the Danish mind.
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Germans hidden in barges seized the Moordyke Bridge in Holland, which enabled the German invaders to turn the
defences Dutch
from the south. This was decisive.
But 120,000 Germans resident in the little country 'occupied a con- siderable share of the Dutch armed furces and made conjuesi
that much easier. The 120,000 occupied their leisure เท propaganda and espionage for the Nazis.
over the Albert Canal, Belgium's first and chict line of detence, thanks to which both Belgium and Holland were doomed to cusy conquest. There was no need for them.
The thousands of dissatisflect Flemings of the Dinase (Dietsche Nationale Solidaristen) and the members of Leon Degrelle's Rexist Party saw to that.
played
But the 60,000, reinforced by the usual diplomatic, newspaper, artis- and tle and business propaganda espionage corps from Germany, a powerful-part in building up and financing these treasonable Belgian organizations, and in in- fluencing important persons In 2 sense favourable to Germany. The final astounding decision of
King 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-
clouin 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 activity in that country of such
This is the first of a series of articles recently made public by the United States Secretary of the Navy Knox is 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 ble 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 armu- ments."
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Gerinan "Intellectuals"
Abetz, derich Sieburg and. Otto recent Nazi appointee to the Ger man ambassadorship at Vichy.
for the There was no chance Germans in Great Britain to show their hand. In the first place Britain's island situation saved It from any surprise attack. And secondly, the British secret service
OKAY.. LET'S GO!
had, for a long time, been fully aware of the dangers.
In the first 24 hours of the war, somo 400 German Nazi agents were put out of the way. The whole number of Hitler-Germans
were
then either expelled or arrested and u great number of the anti-Hitlerlan German refugees as well-come say up to 90 per cent.
"TO SLEEP, PERCHANCE TO DREAM"
GETTING to sleep, and stay-
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?
-don't mean counting_innumer- able solemn-faced sheep, but going walk up your favourite glen. climbing your favourite hill, break- ing 70 on the golf course, Ashing your favourite river.
Whichever you choose, it 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 kingfisher at the waler- side.
The
other evening returning frinn A.lt.P, duty, 1 thought what a grund night it would be for a cast. So after putting my clothes in their vorrect 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 la "somewhere in Roxburghs shire't it is not very broad or lin- posing, but it is a gay river, nearly always laughing over its white stones. Sometimes it is coy and the trailing shy, hiding under the
Two hundred and Bity enjoyed extra-territorial privileges as mem- bers of the German legation in the Hague alone, without counting ofcials in the various consulates, Fifty or a hundred so-called news- papermen spent most of their time wandering the country bent
research. strategic and economic German servants nearly every- where carefully amassed bits of conversation
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When Hitler finally struck, the 120,000 turned on their placid hosts and, where they could, shot them down.
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Practically all produced identification curds which procured them the respect and co-operation of the German officers. In Rotter dam they utilized private wireless sendera supplied by the Nazi Party." Everywhere they served as guides and advisors for parathullats and It was no fault of theirs that Queen of Holland, the members of
Government the Dutch
and a selected list of patriotle Dutchmen were not all seized by ale rulders and taken to Germany the first day of attack.
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The 00,000 Germans living in Belgium do not seem to have taken any particular part in the trenson- able failure to destroy the bridges
allers, but just as you are getting Into its quiet, demure mood, dif it goes again in a clear stream of
.. mirth.
This night i started from a flat, calm stretch. There was enough Hight to see the flies doncing over it, and to get my cast rendly. As I sat on the messy tree trunk- how many years has it lain there, I wonder?-I could hear the fan- cinating plop and splash of a "rise," then again, and againt Everything pointed to a good caich!
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With the reel making that sweet- ly rasping noise no dear to the asher, I 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. bist, of course, he was expecting it and did not venture.
I mode my way upstream, dis- turbing sleeping water-hens which fluttered noisily through the water to the other side. Not far off a
heron squawked, and a while owl slided silently overhead. I could feel the smell I always connect. with this river, a curious' mixture of earth, garlic, mint, and wet red clay.
In one of the singing streams I took a nice troul, maybe half-a-. pound, and then another. I imagin- -thom-white and luscious, done in oatmeal, in the morning!
There was a swishing of grass on, the bank opposite, and I could make out the lumbering forms of some enitle which bad athered to watch me, solemn and silent.
I Ashed on for another hour or so, my basket becoming pleasantly weighty. It had been a good night, with plenty of sport and excite. ment, especially when that big one
was all tangled in the reeds at my feet and nearly got away.
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In a distant farm steading a cock was crowing, and in the sky the dawn, a pearly pink band was breaking. I took down my and packed up. In the fields the sheep were cropping the gr#SA, busy and greedy, Do they never stop for sleep? I walked along the quiet still road and turned a cor- ner-There was a house, with_a__ hawthorn bower over the 'gate, and a white porch.
"Couldn't sleep for these planes parading about all night!" someone said crossly at breakfast.
"Never heard 'em!" I said, at- fucking my ration of bacon, and thinking how nearly it was a juicy red-spotted trout!
TELEPATHY AND THE WAR
"MY husband is coming
woman
home." says a war wife, suddenly. A mother cries, "I klow my boy is safe!" The other day it was reported that had known by instinct that her R.A.F. brother was a prisoner of war Rear Hamburg. War Office information later proved her correct.
How many sailors' 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? War fosters a sixth sense which has puzzled scientists for years.
Scientists may be able to clear up the riddle to telepathy, this silent communtention 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-raid. No doubt they scoffed.
There had of course, been no nir-rald on London. But It was later found that, unknown to his wife, the husband had joined the A.R.P. and at the hour of her ines- sage had taken part in rehearsals demolition. buildings under in Some telepathic vision of these half-demolished houses had been communicated to the woman, and she had herself filled in the Iden of a rald. Many such cases are re- ported.
Investigators in the past six yenre have conducted more than 500,000 tests to see whether this unwritten
communication of the mind could be definitely established. They be- gan with packs of cards printed in various symbols, stars, crosses, and
so on.
Card by card, a "reveptive tele- pathist" told what the "transmitter telepathist" was thinking. In the same room, through 930 callings of the pack, he averaged 14 correct in u pack. When he sat in the next room his average rose to 14.0.
When he sat two rooms away, his average was 16 cards right in 25. At 250 miles away, he stil averaged 10.1 cards correct.
Seeing the Thought-Wave
In an Everest expedition before the wor an effort was made to project news across 10,000 miles on a certain day every month, with astonishing subecsa, Mro. Charlotte Haldane, the recipient, achieved 50 per cent results.
Once she dreamed that she re- ceived three letters from the ex- pedition, and found that the enve- "Yes," lopes had been spilt open, she thought "the coolles have open- ed them to steal the stamps." Three months later she learned that let- lers from the expedition had indeed been stolen.
At Cambridge University two ex- perimenters have photographest the passage of thougirt by recording And amplifying the electric im- puises sent out by the brain. An ather selenllat belleves that he has seen the thought waves.
The lato Dr. Kilner, of St. Thomas's Hospital, sensilised his after oyes with dicyunin, and patient experiment BOW, na he claimed the rays of the aurn, the strange emanation from the human body. One of his successors claim- ed to have distinguished from the brain itself,
waves
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