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OME of the most dramatic incidents in the battle of wits between the British Secret Service and the German espionage machine were con- nected with German attempts to ferret out secrets of our 30- enlled "Second Front."
Raids on the French const in pre-invasion years were the beginnings of the invasion, for they were intended to reveal the problems to be solved and to
The Spy Who
Tried To Trick
The B.B.C.
IN AND OUT OF PARLIAMENT
LOCAL ELECTIONS and a BY-ELECTION
By Ernest Thurtle, M.P.
ABOUR M.P.8 are naturally much concerned
about the local elections setback.
I find no disposition to underrate the signi- ficance of the event, nor the implications it con- tains for the future.
In particular, newcomers to Parliament; of which this House contains a high percentage, are perturbed at this latest revelations that electoral support retains the unstable quality of shifting - sand, and is hardly the rock-like foundation it was thought to be a year or sa ngo.
Many believe, and I think, with reason, that Labourg defeat was mainly due to the breaking out of pent-up irritation and disappointment at the continuance of shortages.
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IN my view, ideological issues played little part
in the results.
We have in the Labour ranks two schools of thought.
One says that the way to retain the favour of the people is by more State control and nation- alisation; the other school says the opposite.
Probably the truth is that the electors, who are human enough to be more practical than theoretical, are concerned primarily with resuits, and very little with how they are achieved,
Some indication, at least, that they are not yearning for more advanced Secret Service solved the and comprehensive Sute control s to be found in the decisive fashion problem so well that is doubtful in which they rejected all the Com
The
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if any, spy disguised as a refugee munist candidates who appealed for wasn't under observation from the their support. moment he landed. The Germans were driven to use the more dan- gerous method of dropping spies by parachute or sending them ashore
in boats.
coast
NISAPPOINTING though
DIS
12 WAS
to learn that the feets and other materials we hope to get from the East African Development scheme One of the Arst of these was will not be along for some years. another Dutch Araltor, Charles van Mr Strachey's bread picture of this
whit reached den Kieboom,
the great enterprise was, nevertheless;
inspiring. vin a German seaplane and rubber dinghy. He was caught al- Parliament for once, apart from excursions Into the past, Always, the German Intelli- But the British Secret Service is most immediately and the ane part-tile
very cautious and very thorough. able wireless transmitter he carried dropped party recriminations, in unison wished well to this test new methods and equin. gence's main difficulty had been Dronkers had, been passed, but that was alone almost enough to damn templ do change vast areas of sterile
getting information out of Bri- didn't mean he had been forgotten. him. ment. These raids reached a
tain. As an island, we still had Quietly, an investigation had gone climax on August 19. 1942. many advantages when it came with, the attack on Dieppe and to espionage. Spies with wire
transmitters had repercussions In London less aome months later in the shape caught one after another.
So the bold of a number of spy trials,
plan
was that The German High Command Dronkers should had
existing become very
perturbed use
wireless facili- about these raids. Hitler sum-
ties nothing moned a special war council and
less than broal the chiefs of the German Intel- casting to his ligence Service were blamed for masters, using having failed to secure neces- sary information about British plans.
Dutch Quisling
had
been
and
at-
bush Into Nourishing food-produc- tion lands. i on and it so happened that one day, He remained something of
Dearth that we suffer from ot makes this vision of present two stern men appeared in Dronkers mystery man, refusing to say any- office at Radio Oranje.
thing about his past, except that he coming abundance pleasant to the
It
was on the eve of his first was born in Japan. He was execut-eye.
broadcast the ed at Wandsworth,:
by
PETER LEIGHTON
Wandsworth Gnol,
broadcast he never
made. The men
were
from
the
knew
About
Dronkers.
They had learned
Posed As Refugees
Special Branch. Failure on the Channel route fed They
Its realisation must be pressed forward with all speed.
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all the Germans to try using Spain and INV brought about
I from out OWD
of
Nvlew of the unhappy affair
which
the Portugal S a starting place for
Gravesend by-election, the local spies bound for Britain. They pose Labour Party have shown wisdom agents in Holland, as refugees who had escaped from in selecting their new candidate,
Sir Richard Acland. is perhaps who had been the Gestapo gaols and interument British transmitters, and. of erdered to make inquiries.
camps in the Occupied Countries inore a visionary than a practical politician, but-from the point of The evidence facing him was so and made
for neural frontiers view of personal integrity he Is course, using code.
complete that he didn't attempt to
were quite above suspicion, Dronkers was well preparet deny it, limiting his detence to the But one after another they
A deeply serious young man, wh for his mission. Not only was for the Germans.
story that he'd been forced to spy caught and the melancholy proces
A jury found sion to the Old Balley continued the speech and manner of a roman- he given masterly-forged-him-gulity- and he was hinged at month after month, year-after-year, tie crusader, his appeal will coun- teract the special handicap under SS General Walter Schrecken- credentials showing him to be a
cen- which were
another type
Labour The stream of refugees across the Altogether 15 sples bach, then in charge of the member of the Dutch resist Channel during the whole of the fences to death in the famous Num-candidate would at present confront special department' concerned ance, but he was also given
war provided the British Secret ber 1 Court of the Central Criminal the electors of Gravesend,
In this way the issue of the con- Service with a continuous headache. Cour. At every trial there was in
to cenite on with Nazi Intelligence on the new personality, with ย
Ninety-nine
and In a colonel's uniform with a small virtues or failings of the Govern- British Second Front prepara- "adopted" family complete with were perfcellent of the refugees the courtroom a medium-sized man test will tend
genuine inen
Without indulging in rash Colonel tions, was ordered to get in photographs, mythical, scher women, hunted by the Gestapo, in table to himself, following the pro- ment, which is as it should be.
real danger of their lives,
Ives, But ceedings, carefully. He was formation about future raids at ing and occupations, and, of was obvious that the Germans would linenley Cook, brilliant chief of the phecy. 1 rate
rlecided price. Ile
who, to course, a well-feigned hatred of attempt to use this refugee stream Military Intelligence concemed in retaining the seat higher now that
with his the for slipping in spies. The problem counter-espionage, smuggle into Britain his most the German invaders. This was was how to catch the one in 1000 men, hun ed down the sples who got entered the tourney as its standard-
into Britain. It was the'r triumph bearer:
1Sir Richard Acland won the efficient spies. One of those drilled into him until even if he without seriously interfering with
the welcome freedom of the genuine that the sples failed to carry out
seat by a good margin last Thursday.] selected was Johannes Marinus were woken suddenly in
their task in almos. every case. ONCH, Dronkers, Dutchman who night, he had his tale ready. turned quisling.
any
n
the
Through The Cordon
BY
THE
IL
mercurial
the
'pro-
Labour's chance of
Sir
Richard
WAY by Beachcomber
what is cause
Getting on with it
Ur here is. a more favourable ing on my side is warmer BUT
has
Dronkers had been acting as
It isn't surprising' that Dronkers agent provocateur in the Dutch
slipped through the first cordon. resistance movement, having When he was picked up from
CHARLIE SETS Pin the schedules in this case, in what way upust, is Cars Trenc oxplain managed to secure membership small boat by British armed traw-subject of so much comment under, a
false name. After ler, there was no particular reason proving himself by betraying why his story of having fled from that I quote today from
He powerful leading article:- some of his comrades to the Holland shouldn't be belleved
passed through the control at Har- Gestapo, he was sent to one of wich and 'enme to London, where he the German spy schools where was thoroughly velted by Ble Dutch ing of schedules is in Itself, desir he completed a course lasting authorities, ils letters of recom- aule, then a fully developed scheme
were would appear to be necessary. several months, covering all mendallon and other papers
the scheme suggested is incompre branches of his trade.
found to be genuine.
you can't cat. oysters plan for understand
they are to be staggered and why." ed. Mr T. Cleverley Grampound, the mayor of Sopping Overeate, when asked to comment, said: "The feel- than Mrs cnn wait." friendship, but vicwi "At last we are down to brass wag. My girl puls her career first." Slopcorner sold: "Let Idie tongues Staggered tecks and ruck bottom. to an end. But such a gesture at Grompound seems to be as silly as Mimsic--and I can't say fairer than schedules are it is true only a means The proud father said: "This Mr such a time is proof that we are no afraid to tackle whatever problem
"If it be granted that the stagger
But
who would have to work under-
that."
Youched for by the Dutch autori-hensible and therefore unworkable: this measure is designed to meet. In passing
that they do not understand what is NY angler worth talking to will Ile was regarded as an ideal tes, he was even his freedom and unless one is to assume that those Those crilies who timidly complain
intended are the kind of people who admit that some of his happiest agent. Having served in the asked for nothing better than o
been those when he want to be sure there is a river daye have This is no time for un-
before they build a bridge, Bulld caught nothing. The sky, and the Dutch merchant navy, he had serve the cause in the Dutch Govern- stand it,
Indeed the bridge, and the river will look clouds, he will say, the trees and the He started as a clerk prehensible they may be. learnt to speak English fluently. ment in Londen, in however humble workable schemes however incom
a position.
after itself."
quiet water, heat the mind, and.the the very test of any such scheme la
fishing is only incidental. But the its workability. If it cannot be pu and had sufficient knowledge of and showed industry and abili v. When he suggested that it would be the Dutch resistance movement good propaganda for him to broad-
into effect it is unworkable save in
Americans are going to change ull to be convincing. He also re- cost to his former comrades In the most limited sense; and therefore WWE are just fiends. These words, that. One of them has found a way Mims'e Stop of dipping a worm in a chemical Holland, the den was considered it might as well not have been put a tribute to ceived training in telegraphy favourably. The dream of the Ger- forward, We need an explanation corner in an interview, have been solution which will compel fish to Commencing To-Morrow: "TARS AND SPARS", and, for a time, worked in the man Intelligence was almost coining of what is intended--if anything at
contradicted. An " was omitted bite. It is what one would expect And we require from the last word, "probably be- of this day and age.
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