The Land of Deepening Shadow - Germany-at-War by D. Thomas Curtin
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on that point.
At Stendal we got the Berlin evening papers, which had little of interest except a few lines about the _Ancona_ affair between Washington and Vienna. "Do you think Austria will grant the American demands?" the man in grey asked the man in blue. "Austria will do what Germany thinks best. Personally, I hope that we take a firm stand. I do not believe in letting the United States tell us how to conduct the war. We are quite capable of conducting it and completing it in a manner satisfactory to ourselves." The man in grey agreed with the man in blue. Past the blazing munition works at Spandau, across the Havel, through the Tiergarten, running slowly now, to the _Friedrichstrasse Bahnhof_. A bewildering swirl of thoughts rushed through my head as I stepped out on the platform. More than three months ago I had left London for my long, circuitous journey to Berlin. I had planned and feared, planned and hoped. The German spy system is the most elaborate in the world. Only through a miracle could the Wilhelmstrasse be ignorant of the fact that I had travelled all over Europe during the war for the hated British Press. I could only hope that the age of miracles had not passed. |
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