SECRET ARMIES
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and in France where Nazi and
mercy by the Munich
an amazing secret underground army, has
made the fascist activities in the Western Hemisphere somewhat
"peace"
Italian agents built
dearer to me.
I have included one chapter detailing events which cannot,
so far as I have been able to discover, be traced directly to Nazi
espionage; but
England
s
now
it
shows the influence of Nazi ideology upon
"Cliveden
which maneuvered the
notorious
set,"
betrayal of Austria, sacrificed Czechoslovakia and is working in
devious ways to strengthen Hitler in Europe. The "Cliveden set"
has already had so profound an
effect
upon
the growth
and in
it ad
fluence of fascism throughout the world, that I thought
visable to include it.
The
sources for most of the material, by its very nature,
Those conversations which I quote
naturally cannot be revealed.
directly came from people who were present when they occurred
or, as in the case of the Cagoulards in France, from official
on Czechoslovakia I quote a conversation
between a Nazi spy and his chief. The details came to me from
a source which in the past I had found accurate. Subsequently,
the spy was arrested by Czech secret police, and his confession
substantiated the conversation as I have given it.
Much of the material in this volume has been published in
various periodicals from time to time, but so many Americans
feel that concern over Nazi penetration in this country is exag
gerated, that I hope even this brief and incomplete picture
will serve to impress the reader, as it has impressed me, with
records. In the chapter
the gravity of the situation.
J.
L.
S.