26 APRIL 1940, page 13

People And Things

By HAROLD NICOLSON A LTHOUGH I enjoy detective novels, I am bored by spy-stories. I find it hard to account for this difference in appreciation. It may be that the spies whom I......

There Are Certain Facts Which I Must Admit. There Is

in the first place the fact that the Germans have since 1933 and before devoted a large proportion of their immense organising-power and their limited income to the perfection-......

* * We Have Been Told Stories Of How The

Germans are imme- diately informed even of the smallest incident in Allied countries. There is the story (told alternatively about Pre- sident Lebrun and King George VI) of how......

I Fear That If All These Stories Are Believed Too

readily we shall slide into that state of suspiciousness and gullibility which is the exact mood which the Germans wish to create. The mere fact that Herr Hitler confessed to......

Our Counter-espionage Service In The Last War Was Ad-...

efficient. The methods then adopted, and some even of the officials who applied these methods, still remain. They are trained experts in protecting us against the activities of......

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......

It Is Evident That After The Norwegian Episode, In The

light of the revelations which may come to us from Yugoslavia, extreme vigilance must and will be exercised. I hope, how- ever, that no popular outcry, no Press campaign, no......