Before The Carving
Czechoslovakia
IS
PRETTY GENERALLY ADMITTED ROW that the Munich
ITgave
Germany
industrial
and military
"peace"
areas essential to fur
ther aggressions. Instead of helping to put a troubled Europe on
Munich strengthened the totalitarian
the road to lasting peace,
powers, especially Germany, and a strengthened Germany in
evitably means increased activities of the Nazis Fifth Column
which
in all quarters of the globe, actively preparing the
is,
for Hitler
s
greater plans.
divine the future by the past, the Fifth Column,
that shadowy group of secret agents now entrenched in every
important country throughout the world, is an omeri of what is
ground
If
we can
to come.
Before
Germany marched
into Austria, that
country witnessed a large influx of Fifth
unhappy
Column members. In
Czechoslovakia, especially in those months before the Republic s
heart was handed to Hitler on a platter, there was a tremendous
increase in the
numbers and
activities of agents sent into the
Central European country.
During
ceding the
Gestapo
s
my
stay there in the brief period immediately pre
"peace,"
I
learned a
little
about the operations of the
Their numbers are
secret agents in Czechoslovakia.
and those few of whom I learned, are infinitesimal to the
numbers at work then and now, not only in Czechoslo
vakia but in other countries. What I learned of those few, howvast
actual