The following is the second of five articles made public by Secretary Knox of the Navy Department at Washington, as part of The other articles will follow. Colonel Donovan, recently r@turned from a mi the national sible eras mission abroad on behalf of Secretary Knox, wrote these articles in collaboration with Edgar Mowrer, foreign correspondent.
HEN all allowance has been made for Hitler's superior armies, his resourcefulness, his daring, and the vital assistance by Germans living within the victim countries, his success can only be explained by another factor.
This is nothing less than the pre ence among his enemies of what, since the Spanish civil war, has been known as the "Fifth Column".
Since no country has ever be has existed potentially in every 1 or Totalitarian countries ruthless en unanimous, a "Fifth Column" and in every war. But despotic sly suppress it at home while "Daily Herald"
"Don't look round now, but I think we're being followed!" exploiting it elsewhere.
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