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The Fifth Column

They learned it in

Col. William J. Donovan and Edgar Mowrer

When all allowance has been made for Hitler's superior armies, his re- sourcefulness, his daring, and the vital assistance by Germans living within the victim countries, his suc- cess can only be explained by another factor. This is nothing less than the pre- sence among his enemies of what, since the Spanish Civil War, has been known as the "fifth column."

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Since no country has ever been unanimous, "fifth column" has existed poten- tially in every land in every war. But the despotic or totalitarian countries ruth- lessly suppress it at home while exploiting it elsewhere.

It is in a democracy that. the "fifth column" can func- tion most freely and effective- ly. It remained for Adolf Hitler's genius to raise the creation, strengthening, or- ganisation and activity of the "fifth column" in the coun- tries that opposed him to a decisive weapon.

We-need-armies. But we shall not use them as in 191 The place of artillery will in the future be taken by re- volutionary

propaganda, break down the enemy psycho- logically before the armies. begin to function at all.

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The enemy people must be demoralised and ready capitulate before military nc- tion can even be thought of

mental confusion, inde- cisiveness, panic, these are our weapons. The history of revolutions... is always the same: The ruling classes capitulate. Why? Defeatism: They no longer have the will to conquer.

The propaganda machine for creating and sustaining a "fifth column,"-again accord- ing to Hitler's confessed

theory is of a double nature. No one side it aims at in- fluencing the masses. For this purpose Hitler in the present war utilises his radio. traitors. Lord Haw Haw for the English, Ferdonnet for the French, and to some ex- tent, particularly in the Inst two years, communist agita- tors whom he tricked or cor- rupted into serving him. But for the cluasca he had a much more subtle bait. As he him- self put it:

"The results at which I aim are only to be obtained by the systematic corruption of the and Possessing

This is the second

of the sensational arti- cles made public by U. S. A. 's Secretary Knox of the Navy De- partment at Washing- ton, as part of the na- tional defence pro- gramme,

enthusiasm in favour of Nazi Germany, agents like Franz von Papen skilfully convinced leading Austrians that only through Hitler could their secret aspirations be fulfilled.

The Slovaks, who had suf- fered their bondage under Hungary, could be duped. But Czechs and l'oles could not. Both peoples had lived to jowl far too long cheek

with Prussians to have the slightest doubt as to Hitler's real intentions.

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There was no strong "fifth column" among the Czechs and Poles; few Czech agrarians, the former Polish Foreign Minister Josef Beck. The-Czechs-were-finally-con--

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But the Dutch Government had little enough to conceal, The Dutch National Socialists did what they could do to welcome, assist. and succour the invading German para- chutists and air-borne infan- try, and somewhat half- heartedly took part in the German attacks upon the Dutch police and army. But of themselves they were re- latively ineffective.

In Belgium, without the shadow of a doubt, Flemings loyal to Hitler betrayed the main defences of the Albert Canal and opened not only their country, but Holland as well, to German invasion.

An eyewitness, the wife of a patriotic Belgian customs the authority stationed on Dutch frontier nearby, re- ported how Flemish soldiers deliberately neglected to blow the bridges over the canal which had been constructed primarily as a barrier to in- vasion.

Others took to their heels at the sight of the first Ger- man. In all the towns, pro-. German Flemings and Rexists of Dogrelle sprend stories of

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the uselessness of the war, the strength of Germany and the futility of resistance.

Others threw the villages into panic, creating hordes of refugees whose presence on

the roads southward slowed and even prevented the ad- vance of the French and British Armies that were coming to Belgium's assist-

ance.

quered by French betrayal HEROES OF "THE BUMPER TRIP”

the Poles the armed might .of a nation three or four

times as strong.

To see the "fifth column" in full swing one had to wait

for the attack on democratic countries.

In Norway there is little doubt but that "fifth column" activities contributed to the success of the German blitz attack and were responsible for the quick collapse of all organised resistance.

Major and former National Defence Minister,Quisling had been, if not actually in the pay of German Nazis, at least in close contact with them for years.

His success in stabbing Norway in the back can be traced (A) to the fear of Socialism carefully fostered among leading Norwegians by Nazi propaganda and (B) to the fact that numerous ap- pointments to high army communds had been made by Quisling's intimate friend,

There is some

scason to believe that the electrically controlled mines guarding the inner harbour of Oslo were put out of action by another highly placed Norwegian trai- for.

By A. J. McWhinnie THE convoy boys who run

Hitler's gauntlet in the Channel little more than a dozen miles from his long- "the it range

guns call bumper trip."

And when their ships are safely through the multiple perils of the narrow Straits of Dover, they say, "It's still the English Channel."

I'd back the daring, the coolness, the courage of the convoy boys against any heroes in the world,

I've done "the bumper trip." I've seen our sailors-both R.N. and Merchant Navy- accepting 1,000 miles an hour shells from the shore bat- teries, bombing, Nazi mines, E-boats and U-boats us just part of the day's work, though they are on the most danger- ous run in the world.

But it needs more than dar- ing to keep the waterways of the English Channel safely open, in spite of all Hitler's tricks.

The daring men must have the latest weapons. And be- hind it all must be careful planning.

All-Weapon Convoy

He He only knew I was at sea. didn't know I was in the shelled and bombed convoy until my story was coining through over the phone after we had reached port.

Before we salled, the crews of the warships escorting the convoy were addressed by their captains.

They were told that they were under "the bumper trip" doing special circumstances and that they would be at "action stations" right through the run.

"We" know our ships can. Ket through the Channel. under cover of durkness. But that nut Buf- ficient.

The convoys inust get through in broad daylight, under clear skies, facing every weapon of the enemy with an effective antklote. And that la just what they are doing. I saw them do it, I sailed with them.

We expected those long-range Run on the French coast to rour their shells at us. Up on the bridge of an escort vessel they were taking bearing of the flashes which revealed the situation of the shore batteries.

. Then our bombers went out to deal with that side of the business.

New Defences

Meanwhile, our warships were trying out a new smoke screen de- velopinent. We're well pleased with the result under its first baptism of fire..

We have the measure, now, of the enemy's dive-bombing tactles. Only by dive-bombing can they be reasonably certain of scoring direct

hits.

There was a special signi- governing

classes. Business advantages, erotic satisfactions and am- bition, are the three main stops in our propaganda or- gan,"

How did this, work in the various countries?

In the bloodless conquest of Austria, "fifth column" Aus- trian leaders liko Seyss-In-

liko quart, dupes

Guido Schmidt, played a decisive part.

While the discontent of the masses was whipped up to

In view of the efficiency of relatively weak coastal do- fences, it is safe to say that without "fifth column" ac- tivity in Norway, the Norwe- gian resistance would have Insted several days and the Invasion conceivably failed altogether.

Holland In

tho "fifth column" was more numerous than effective. This was doubt- less due to its open character. The five odd por cent. of all Dutchmon organised, in Mus- sort's Dutch National Socialist Party for years provided the Nazis with military and econo- mic information.

ficance about that convoy which beat Germany's guns, bombers, mines, E-boats and U-boats the other day.

It was one of our "all- weapon convoys"-rendy for anything.

And the whole world knows now that our all-weapon con- voy get through.

So our convoys are now pro- tected against dive-bornbing at- tacks. Each convoy carries kites on "the bumper trip." They are the barrage balloons of the sea.

Then there are the all-purpose guns of the destroyers the big guns--and there are the pom-poms,

the 48 as well

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which KANS are also carried in every ship in the convoy from cargo Linors down to little, grimy colliers.

The Spitares and the Hurricanes are quick off the mark whenover the enemy gels after our convoy ships. They proved it when shell- ing gave way to bombing on this trip. And they are still proving it

Not a word leaked out about the nature of this con- voy. I was pledged to secrecy with everybody else. I could now. not even telephone my news editor and tell him that I was sailing on "the bumper trip."

Those E-Boats

So much for the attack from the air.

You hear a lot about E-boats. The E. stands simply' for enemy motor-torpedo boats. We've got the measure of those, too. Our destroyers and our own M.TB.s have got their answer ready for signal, "Prepare to repel enemy M.T.B. attack."

And, more than once in the past few weeks. they have given the nnswer.

Then U-boats. It wouldn't sur- prise the Royal Navy at all if there is a sudden wave of U-boats playing a part in Hitler's fight for supremacy in the Channel.

We have the secret Asdic ap- poratus carried by the escorting warships.

And what the Asdle picks up in the way of U-boats our depth charges enn blow to smithereens beneath the sea.

Every ship in convoy these daya has been degnussed against mag- netic, mines, Contact and floating mines we deal with by rifle fro and bullets from our machine- Kuns.

We dealt with six when I was on "the buimper trip,"

Then there orc other secret answers to Germany's new wea- pons. In addition, there are secret weapons of our own.

And for whatever Hitler thinks up next our scientific and engineer- ing experts will have the job of finding an antidote.

The Antidote.

After the speed with which wo were able to smash his theory that his magnetic mines were in- vincible, there is not the slightest reason for swerving from the essential fact of every war-that whatever

new weapons emerge there will always be an antidote.

The escort vessel from which I saw all the Channal battle is one of our crack warships. There are very few parts of the ship where there isn't something which is on the "hush-hush" list.

What a difference from, the carller slages of the war at sca. Then, us In other phases of the truggle against aggression, we weren't ready.

But the scientists, the Inventors, the engineers, the shipyard workers and the skilled craftsmen have been "going to it."

They are the unknown man be- hind the bumper trip."

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