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Widespread Treachery There is one disconcerting element in the present war which is j not readily accounted for—the element of treachery, says the Christian Science Monitor. The word indicates something more than “fifth column” activity, 'for among the “fifth columns” are many Germans | who, whatever their crimes and however deeply they have abused the 1 hospitality of the invaded country, are at least not betraying their own country. Harder to understand is the state of mind of considerable numbers of people in Norway, Holland and possibly other countries, who have plotted their own nation’s ruin. They are so numerous that every threatened country is forced to take drastic measures to deal with the enemy within. In the last war this danger was remote. In no great struggle has treachery played so conspicuous or sinister a part since the religious wars of the seventeenth century when the divisions were not between nations but between sects.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21189, 12 August 1940, Page 6
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158TOPICS OF THE DAY Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21189, 12 August 1940, Page 6
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