He assured me that on a Monday he had lunched
alone with the family of a well-known Jewish financier and that on the following day the German wireless from Stuttgart announced this event with glee. He told me also that the passages which had been cut out of his leading article by the French censorship on Monday were read aloud by Monsieur Ferdonnet (the French Haw-Haw) on Tuesday afternoon. All this, of course, is tricky and mysterious. Yet the very fact that the Germans wish to spread con- sternation and alarm by these gossip paragraphs leads me to be neither disconcerted nor alarmed. And why, if they have really invented a transmitting-set which can be carried in a muff or tobacco-pouch, should the secret wireless recently discovered in a Dutch farmhouse have been so elaborate and so large?
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