"More Precious Than Gold"
UR own Intelligence Services are trained in the art of piecing together scrappy and seemingly inconsequential pieces of information and, from them, shaping a picture on which successful action may be based. It would be sheer folly to suppose that the enemy’s intelligence services are not equally active and equally astute. Trifles of careless gossip may give him just the information he needs. The lesson, then, is clear, silence in wartime is more precious than gold. Naturally your boys overseas want news from home; naturally your friends in Britain, in the United States, in Australia, want to hear from you. But they do not need to hear, nor should they want to hear, news which should be secret for the efficient prosecution of the war.-(‘ Don’t Write: A Warning to Correspondents," 2YA, February 16.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 142, 13 March 1942, Page 5
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138"More Precious Than Gold" New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 142, 13 March 1942, Page 5
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