TOPICS OF THE DAY

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21211, 6 September 1940, Page 4

TOPICS OF THE DAY

German Methods “We are faced by an enemy who has behind him the largest, the most industrious, the best disciplined and the most highly organised people in the world,” says the Manchester Guardian. “For seven years he has been building up his armed strength, exciting our derision by his avowed preference for guns over butter. He uses a diplomacy in which audacity .and treachery are served by a system of espionage and intrigue such as the world has never known. In all countries, near and lar, he has his agents who affect every shade of political opinion and assume every kind of disguise. No detail of life is too small or trifling for their attention. Propaganda, suggestion and intimidation have been developed by assiduous care to such finished arts that our easy, nonchalant methods look like a nursery game of hide and seek. Never in the history of the world has so much time, energy, intelligence and will been concentrated on one object—that of establishing the power of a system by ruthless force and universal intrigue. That is the Leviathan with which we are struggling.”