For years this sort of thing went on more' or less ffi broad' daylight. During the appeasement' period the Germans were ' actually aided by certain' members of -the British Embassy" in Paris.
"Not until two months before the outbreak of the war did anyone dare to take action' against the numerous Geiman agents—and then the vacillating' Daladier talked big and did Tittle. with a- Hudson-Wohlthat plan for economic concessions to Germany. Moreover, with British patriotism at the white heat of today under threat of imminent invasion, the fate confessed "fifth Columnists" in Britain would be short and unenviable, Agents Jailed This time the British police were Frepared for the war. At the opening of hostilities they jailed some 400 of the best German agents. Later raids tended to show that the backbone of the organization was broken then, The involuntary confinement of over a thousand Britishers, mostly followers of Mosley, furtlfer cleared the air.
All in all, foreigners in Britain have the impression that the several branches of the competent Britis Police are masters of the situation, end that the British soul was never really tainted by Nazi propaganda. Everyone listens to Lord Haw Haw but his words arouse more laughter than belief. A nation that faces mortal peril with the grim joke: "Well, at least Britain has reached the: finals!" "seems: sound.
Nonetheless, many foreigners believe'that if the-worst should happen and an invasion of Britain occur, some positive and hitherto unrevealed fruits of Hitlers propaganda would appear in the shape of a not entirely insignificant British "Fifth Column" which like the French, would find numerous reasons why Britain should rather "come to terms" with Hitler than continue singlehanded a desperate struggle the outcome of which is bound to contain some social change.- Whether such a "Fifth. Column" -could as-in France come to supreme power ig quite another story—United Pres:
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