Under cover work in the last "Neutral" zones of Europe: disclosed by Charles Lanius

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UNDER COVER WORK in the LAST NEUTRAL ZONES OF EUROPE
Disclosed by
CHARLES LANIUS
Watched German propaganda operations in Switzerland, Belgrade, Vichy, Madrid and Lisbon.

NEUTRALITY BECOMES A MYTH—Europe's last neutrals bending backwards under Nazi pressure; Germany's Alpine arsenal working overtime; inside information on the Hitler control of the countries not yet invaded.

CENTRAL EUROPE'S CUPBOARD PLUNDERED—The Balkans ravished by Germany.  Yugoslavia and Greece fill Germany's breadbasket.  What happened to Belgrade and the cities of Greece; an eye-witness account.

LISBON, ESCAPE HATCH OF EUROPE—Nazi and United Nations propagandists watching each other in the jumping off place, where neutrality is mask for the most daring individual activities of the war.  The inside of the inside operations.


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CHARLES LANIUS
WHILE Nazi agents endeavored to have him removed under charges that he sidestepped the bounds of strict neutrality, in his radio reports to the United States, Charles Lanius enjoyed a ringside seat in the mid-Europe theatre of propaganda operations and gained one of the most thrilling inside stories that the war has produced.  As newspaper and NBC correspondent in Berne, Switzerland he remained longest at the last neutral listening post on the continent.

From this vantage point he was able to observe the pressure that the Germans and Italians are putting on the few remaining neutrals; their unreported sources of munitions and foodstuffs supply, and to ascertain the reasons for Axis failure to put certain areas under official military supervision.  His information caused uneasiness among certain Axis leaders and the Swiss were prevailed upon to cut him off the air, but he continued to hold his position and observe some of the war's greatest espionage operations, all the time maintaining authoritative news sources which afforded him valuable information.

An exciting dash across unoccupied France and Spain brought him to Lisbon, Portugal, the escape hatch of Europe, also the heart of the propaganda system directed toward the Western hemisphere.  Here he observed the espionage and counter espionage activities of both Axis and United Nations.  He brings hitherto untold tales of undercover work in the area where nations brew their biggest plots.

For ten years prior to the entry of the United States into the War, Charles Lanius was correspondent in Paris, Berlin and Rome for American newspapers and NBC, and as such was among the few Americans to accompany the German Army on the invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece.

Suspected of espionage in Semlin he was arrested but bested the Nazi Gestapo who promised him severe punishment.  Lanius was the first American commentator to go on the air with news of the German assault on Russia.

His far-reaching news sources have afforded him endless material for stirring stories of what is going on in mid-Europe—what the Nazis are doing under the shield of neutral nations—and some interesting information about what is also going on under the eyes of the Nazis.

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Comment
Charles Lanius was most obliging to speak to us, so soon after his return from abroad.  He had a great deal of information to tell us, and was also exceptionally interesting during the question period.  We would like to hear from him again.—RUTH E. TRIPP, President, Providence, R. I., Plantations Club.