Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 October 1938 — Page 9

U. S., Pivotal Nation if War Comes, Is Paradise of Spies, Foreign Envoy Says

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Timds Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13—“America,” an ambassador representing one of the most important powers

ot Swe Secizre, “is the paraspies. e coun with them.” uy swarms The envoy was not discussing President Roosevelt's proposals for an improved counter-espionage system in the United States. That would have been indiscreet. He was speaking of spy activities in his own land, and this led him to make comparisons. ;

country, he said, because every foreign’ government is convinced that America will play a pivotal role in the next great war just as it did in the last. Therefore it is increasingly vital to keep an eye on her every move so as to be prepared. The country is a spy paradise because Americans simply refuse to take the spy job seriously. They make a joke of it or think of it as semething that exists only in novels and movies. Once in a long

while they hear of some silly Japanese schoolboy taking a picture of Brooklyn Bridge or a ship passing through a lock at Panama—post-

cards of which could be bought by the thousands at a penny apiece— and that, they say, is about all espionage amounts to in real life. The spy’s job, especially in the United States, is vastly different. Most nations know what the various types of battleships look like, inside and out. And what sort of rifle their respective soldiers are using. The main job of spies in this country, therefore, has little of the glamour of Mata Hari about it and is far more practical and dangerous. In the event of a new world war, few foreigners expect any neutrality law to keep the United States out

of it for long. If we do not actually fight in it, they are convinced that we probably will withhold supplies from the aggressors and supply them to the victims. Even if the neutrality act should prove effective, the cash-and-carry proviso would enable Great Britain, France and the side that controls the sea to buy billions of dollars’ worth of material and foodstuffs over here. Foreign governments, therefore, want to find out all there is to know about this country’s industrial mobilization in case of conflict—how many planes we can build, how many engines, what types they are

and how®fast they can fly. The same thing about chemicals, munitions an raw materials—where factories are situated, diagrams of factories and all they can learn about personnel. Then they want to know about transportation from raw-material bases, factories and so on to ports, and about trans-Atlantic shipping, dock facilities and so on. If and when a new world war breaks out, interested foreign powers will want to be able to sabotage American production, destroy factories, disrupt communications by crippling railways and ships, cause

strikes and in a thousand other ways hamper American effort. Everybody remembers what happened in the United States before and after we entered the World War, Explosions and fires were of frequent occurrence wherever War activities were in progress. Bridges

and docks were destroyed, ships were disabled or sunk by explosives concealed in coal or elsewhere about the vessels, and machinery was wrecked by abrasives. The indications are that the next world war would see far more of this sort of thing, rather than less.

It would be much better organized in advance. For years observers have been saying that a new general war in Europe is well-nigh inevitable, hence foreign spies have been increasingly active. Their job is to keep track of just what America could and might do in case of con-

flict, and be in a position to cripple her in every way possible when the time comes. The pride of America always has been, and remains, the fact that our land is a haven for the oppressed. But this very melting-pot nature of

the country makes it easier, in times

of crisis, for spies to mix among perfectly loyal citizens with a minis mum of danger of detection.

DISLIKED TEACHER,

GIRL, 17, ENDS LIFE

TUPELO, Miss., Oct. 13 (U. P.).— Vadie Dulaney, 17-year-old high school girl; told her parents at breakfast that she didn’t like her teacher. Then she took her father’s shotgun and killed herself a few minutes before the school bus are rived. : The parents did not reveal cone tents of a note which she left.

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