The successful manner in which Germany descended upon Norway and seized the key positions practically overnight, is now known to be due to treachery amongst Nazi supporters in Norway. An order forged in the name of Dr. Koht, Norwegian Foreign Minister, forbade resistance by the war vessels at the naval base in Oslo Fiord, while electrically controlled mine fields in the Narrows were rendered harmless as part of the plot. As the war proceeds it is made clear that there are Quislings in every country in Europe—men primed beforehand to prepare for a Nazi invasion. They are heads of an organized body of trained saboteurs, spies and propagandists, and their reward is high office when the Nazi invasion has proved successful. It is necessary for all those neutrals, who may in turn be threatened with invasion, to carry out the closest investigation into the bona fides of those aliens resident in their country, to make sure that similar organization such as that which betrayed Denmark and Norway shall not in turn lead to their own downfall. In Holland Nazi whisperers are busily employed in warning the Netherlanders of an impending Allied invasion Thousands of German travellers are touring the Balkans, for no other reason than to be on the spot when Herr Hitler decides to turn his attention to that area. German youths have been arriving in Istambul in wholly unwanted numbers, but the Turkish police are dealing with the situation effectively, and quite rightly have no compunction whatever in searching the premises of local German clubs. In the light of these facts the recent decision by the British Government to review the decisions of the tri-burials which decided what aliens should be interned, is to be welcomed. That rather less than one per cent. of the enemy aliens in Britain at the outbreak of war should have been confined suggests that the net which was spread for enemy agents was much too largely meshed. There is not the slightest desire to harm Germans resident in Britain so long as they are not enemy agents, but it is better to imprison a few people without complete justification than to permit a few active enemies to be at large. The Nazi "fifth arm" is a very real thing, and is to be met in practically every country of the world. The world revolution which Germany has been plotting is on a much vaster scale that anything which the Third Internationale has ever devised. By such a revolution Germany hopes to obtain mastery of the world, a hops the fulfilment of which it is desired to postpone for a very long time indeed.
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