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 less justified in suppressing all news until it becomes as stale as a month-old haddock. Photographs and films which would be of value in countering the terrific German propaganda in France and in the United States have been held up without sufficient reason. In no war into which we have ever entered have we possessed so splendid a justification ; in no war has our initial organisation been so rapid and so effective ; yet both the Americans and the French are under the impression that we are allowing other young men to die on our behalf and the Germans to save petrol while our aeroplanes drop hand-bills on their forests.
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