The German Spy System The terror in Germany has to
a large extent done its work, and therefore to a large extent been mitigated. But the decree regarding the secret police issued by General Goering last week gives some indication of the conditions under which life in Germany is still lived. The secret police, acting independently, though technically under the Ministry of the Interior (which General Goering controls) will have power to ban periodicals and papers, to veto public meetings, to open letters and telegrams and to listen in to private telephone conversations. A vast spy-system is thus officially organized. The object, of course, is to make the hatching of any kind of revolt against the present regime, impossible, and it will no doubt serve its purpose—at the cost of charging the atmosphere with suspicion and putting every man on guard .against any stranger he meets. Life under such conditions is something no Englishman could tolerate.
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