6 OCTOBER 1939, page 14

Spy-maniacs On The Other Hand Are Enthroned In Power. They

are perfectly right in contending that the citizens of this country should show prudence in avoiding the dissemination of news which " might be of value to the enemy." They are......

Even During This Short War Of Appeasement Which We Have

been experiencing during the last weeks, signs have not been wanting that the maniacs are getting active. A whole district was roused the other night because the flapping of a......

People And Things

By HAROLD NICOLSON W AR, as we know, is the most highly organised form of boredom, and it is inevitable that with all this hanging about the tempers of men and women should......

What Is So Interesting, And So Irritating, About The Spy-

maniacs is that they are always true to form. In the Crimean War there were many otherwise sane citizens who asserted and believed that the Prince Consort had been confined for......

This Secretiveness Is, I Fear, A Mark Of The Second-rate

military mind. The big people are naturally too busy to concern themselves with censorship questions, and even those efficient officers who in the past managed with intelli-......

My Anger Is Not Wholly Irrational. Cruelty And Stupidity Are

perhaps the worst of human vices, and the inanity of the spy maniac is only equalled by his downright unkind- ness. He selects for persecution (a) prominent British sub- jects......

It Is Not Only The Amateur Spy-maniac Who Is A

public nuisance_ We must be vigilant about spy-mania in official quarters. Unquestionably a certain reticence is fitting in war-time and it is wrong to blab about military or......