The Nazis have been as successful as their reputation for
effici would lead one to expect in stifling news about the conspiracy ag Hitler. Rumours—of slaughter of officers by the Gestapo Himmler's orders, of close political surveillance of every sets General; of various suicides, of Hitler's own retirement to hospi —have abounded, but: as regards essentials we know very h more than we did a week ago. The single item of official news significant. The offer of a reward of 1,000poo marks, about £50, for information leading to the arrest of Karl Goerdeler, a fo Mayor of Leipzig, for participation in the plot against Hitler's may be read as an open confession of Himmler's security sys for it shows that his spies have failed completely in the busin for which they exist. It would seem to indicate, moreover, that danger Hitler fears is still existent, for an individual, Goerdeler, ai no accomplices surviving, would certainly not be worth a mil marks or a thousand. But as a leader of conspirators still at he well might be. But in one respect Goebbels and his cli are fortunate. Germany's defeats on every front have given Germ something other to think and talk about than dissensions wi But the silence does not mean that the dissensions have ceased to
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