The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-26
By CaASLEs 3. roLrz. u.

BY CHARLES 3. FOLTz, u.
NEW YORK, Fsb., 2e-Glam-
our girl spies who tried their
darndest to Be the Mata Harris
Of this war have taken back
seat behind plain John Business
man. ace espionage agent Of
1e4l.
You still zee lansuorous beaut-
ies draped across divans in ho-
tel Hobbies or ogling officers Ia
European cafes and night clubs.
but few Of them are making Z
living 1t espionage.
They're good 70 look at and
many Of them have brains, but
II takes more than good looks
and brains % cross frontiers In
Europe today. One businessman
with no charm ct al, but with
business abroad. II worth far
more to European intelligence
T, services than : full bevy Of
beauties.
Which il why counterespion-
age officials Of neutral govern
.ments say they believe Britain
now has Z big edge on Germany
In military information.
SIZES UNDEkPAID
Dritain's trade empire u nay
ing dividends with perhaps the
worlds most active, and under
paid, spies--businessmen, man.
uf&cturers, technicians and In
dustrialists Of many countries
WHOSE pre-war income was bas-
ca on trade with British firms.
War or no war, those men
travel. War needs their brains
and war machines are made Of
what they have 70 sell. No mat
ter how tight Z frontier may be
sealed" the man who has what
the government behind the from
tier wants win always b able
to pass.
Eventually he comes back out
again. Then ne may 20 directly
Ri Z British Tor Germany friend
perhaps I DIPLOMAT, perhaps
. business man, perhaps just .
social scquaintance. y
He tells of industrial bottle
necks In war production In the
country he visited, Of the fac
tory striving to widen that bot
tleneck. Perhaps he's surprised
and perhaps hs. INIT when he
reads In the paper . few days
later that the same factory has
been bombed. /.
All belligereuts use these COM
mercial spies . the fullest pos
sible extent Some even start
on their business trips with spe.
cial missions, . fact which their
hosts frequently guess. Some
come hack with false informa-
ton hung around thsir necks
BY hosts who fully sxpect them
% report % the ene1ny.
KEEPS LUNCHEON DATE
One representative Of I bellie-
erent government whom ] knew
In Switzerland walked out Of
his Office, leaving Z whole re-
ception room Of professional
agents and iuformers literally
bursting with what they consid-
cred important Information, TO
keep 4 luncheon date with q
businessman b hardly knew.
Here's IN example of how they
wurk-1ictitious, but IN . pat
tern familiar to commercial At
taches md government agents!
Blindspot on The British bomb
ing map, we'll nv, Il the town
Of Holm, forty miles eat a the
Junction Of the Dutch ana Bel
gian frontiers. The German IN
dustrial territory tails The Bril-
tish whist factories are In or near
the town, what they are equip
ped 10 mako and how BIZ they
are. Il does uoe It'll them what
they are making now, nor does
it NY what TROOPS ne IN Rolm.
The German lmdr64rial direct
Dry was sornebody's tumble In
Berlin md . boon b The RAJ.
e cones out sveSy year and the
1910 edition appoared @ usual
giving, with typical German
thoroug hneo1, svon tn locations
70 which certain key factories
had been tf1nsterred. Bombs
followed. The Industrial direct
DRY was not published this year.
WHAT GOES ONT
Oh with The exasuple. London
sends word - all Commercial
agents, bsssineo1noo md British
o6lcial rspyssontetives Abroad
that they Whnt % kuUw what II
going "a h 1olm Whsrs there's
.. gIasD company, . ytoel mill,
3 6rm making fEaanoD IL racing
bicycles md : soop 1actpey.
"a Britilh couzIl tg1at aosut in
Madrid my - : roue1ont ing
llShman eo1llng to1n1n6GD inssir.
6neo - opo4lGh q po15lso. ne
haesa VjdA aquue onISco M h
hes me.n. q 49, ~ - suon-