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SPY-1941 MODEL
Espionage isn't what it used to be. Glamour is out, and business men are preferred. The changing character of this war-time 'profession' is here discussed by a well-known American war correspondent. Kudas. Some come back with false information hung around their necks by hosts who ful- ly expect them to report to the enemy.
The Mata Haris of this war have taken a back seat behind plain John Businessman, ace espionage agent of 1941.
For it takes more than good looks and intelli- gence to eross frontiers in Europe to-day. One busi- nessman with no charm at all, but with business abroad, is worth far more to European intelligence services than
a bevy of beauties.
Which is why counter espionage officials of neutral governments say they believe Britain now has a big edge on Germany in military informa tion,
Britain's trade empire is paying dividends with perhaps the world's most active, and underpaid, spies--business
men, manufactures, technicans and industrialists of many countries whose prewar in- come was based on trade with British firmis,
They Travel
War or no war, those men travel. War needs their in- telligence and war machines are made of what they have to sell. No matter how tight afrontier may be "sealed," the man who has what the government behind that from tier wants will always be able to pass.
Eventually he comes back -out-again-Then-he-may-go- directly to a British (or Ger- man) friend-perhaps a diplo- mal, perhaps a businessman, perhaps just a social acquain- tance.
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He tells of industrial bottle- necks in war production in the country factory striving to widen that bottleneck. Per- haps he's surprised and per- haps he isn't when he reads in his paper a few days later that the same factory has been bombed.
All belligerents use these commercial spics to the fullest possible extent. Some even start off their business trips with special missions, a fact which their hosts frequently
Here's an example of how they work-fictitious, but in a pattern familiar to commer- einl attaches and government against:
Blindspot on the bombing) map, we'll say, is the town of Rulin, 40 miles east of the junction of the Dulch and Belgian frontiers. The Ger- man industrial directly tells the British what factories are in or near the town, what they are equipped to make and how big they are. It does not tell them what they're now making, nor does it say what troops are in Rolm.
Director A Fumble The German industrial direc- tory was somebody's fumble in Berlin and a boon to the R.A.F. It comes out every year and the 1940 edition appeared as usual, giving, with typical German thoroughness, even the new locations to which certain key factorics had been transferred. Bombs followed. The industrial direc- tory was not published this year.
On with the example. Lon- don sends word to all commer- cial agents, businessmen and British official representatives aboard that they want to know what is going on in Roim where there's a glass com- pany, a steel mill, a firm mak- ing-frames-for-racing-bicycles. and a soap factory.
A British commercial agent in Madrid may be a resident Englishman selling business insurance to Spanish com-. panies. He has a wide ac- quaintance and he has means of meeting the Spunish dis- tributing agents for the Rolni Glass Company's hotel table glassés.
The salesman, while ex- plaining the delay in tilling orders, may happen to mention that the factory's warehouses have been used by the military to store military equipment or to house troopš.
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Danube barge makers in Yugoslavia get their steel from Germany. The heads of the firm visit Germany buying expeditions and talk to the owners of the little Rolm plant where plate steel is made.
Swiss chemists from idle Swiss factories are sent to Germany by their firms to study Gernur methods of making soup out of coal or other materials in order to keep the Swiss factory busy filling German orders.
Portuguese bicycle dealers buy most of their bicycle frames where they can, for there's little iron in Portugal and the shipments from the United States and Britain are rare these days. They may go to Rolm, too.
"It sounds like luck," said a commercial man who outlined the picture, "but it isn't. Business crosses frontiers and with it goes espionage."
He estimated that at least half the information handled by military intellignce in Lon- don came from commercial source or through commercial channels.
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Commerce provides a to get the informaiton out even when there are no in- dividuals crossing the fron- tiers. Mails go through and the strictest censorship can- not hope to cope with the vast
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An order, an invoice, Perhaps he meets them the goods themselves may be himself, perhaps he delegates used to convey military in- the job to Spanish hotel formation with or without the owner who may be viewed by knowledge of the shipper. The the distributors as a customer, arrival of 10 cases of camera Perhaps the distributors have
lenses in Switzerland address- visited Rolm recently and fed to an innocent Swiss dealer not, then certainly a Rolm salesman has been calling. Germany needs foreign LX- change.
might tell a British customer of the shop that 10 German air squadrons were based in
a Netherlands coast port.
War-Time Weddings
WAR-TIME weddings are not without their humorous side. An R.A.F. officer wos belog married in a fashionable church, and a nervous young subaltern was acting as usher. Noticing a very dignified lady entering the church, the sub- altern hurried towards her and in- quired, "Friend of the bride- Kroom?"
"Certainly not," was the frigid reply. "I'm the bride's mother.”.
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The war-time wedding was just uver, and the organist was playing the Arst bors of the Wedding March.
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"What's that?" ked Indy guest, turning to her husband.
"Oh," he replied, "that's the beginning of 'Stormy Weather."
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A naval officer WDB getting married, and was trying to re- hearse the ceremony with his best
man.
"And you're sure I have to be on the right side of Ethel?" he asked anxiously.
"Yes," sald the best mun, "and on the right side of her mother, too."
The time came for him to give the ring to the bride, but for the life of him he couldn't remember what he had to ally.
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The bridegroom's face cleared and he gave a sigh of relief, "With this ring," he said volubly, "we give a writlen guarantee, remind- ing the customer that the purchase price will willingly be refunded in ful if the article is not entirely us represented."
The war-time wedding knot had been well and truly fled. The solüler bridegroom turned 10 his bride's father and salt, "Well, I'm
glad that's over."
The bride's Inther laughed. "Over! My dear boy, it's only just started."
An R.A.M.C. officer havered at the door of a church where a-milf- tary wedding was taking pince,
"Are you û friend of the bride or. the bridegroom?" Inquired the usher.
"No."
The usher was rather taken
A soldier, who, in civil life is o abuck, and asked timidly. "Then,
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A war-time wedding had been arranged to take place in a country church, and a stalwart sergeant and a pretty country girl presented themselves at the altar steps.
The ceremony started and pro- eceded smoothly until the ininister asked the sergeant if he would take the girl for his wife. The sergeant remarked, "Excuse me, air, but I'm not bridegroom."
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Then where on earth is the the startled bridegroom?" asked
ninister.
plained the sergeant. "He's only "He's outside the door, sir," ex-
a corporal, and he's too shy to come in."
A Scottish war-time wedding was in full swing, and the bride- groom was in the Home Guard. One guest remarked to the best inan. The bride's
e's no verra bonnie,' "Aye, I ken," agreed the best man, "But whit's for malr important is that sho's a vegetarian and inks ne sugar. In her ten.... The bride- groom's a lucky man. He'll get her rations.? -
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