Until Adolf Hitler admitted fortnight ago that Germany has a military air force in violation of the Treaty of Versailles, Berlin correspondents were afraid to cable stories about the Nazi air bases now being rushed to completion near the Capital, understood that a single reference to them in a dispatch would cause the correspondent to be tried for "espionage and treason."
Last week, the secret being officially out, most correspondents still kept mum. Daring, an Associated Pressman cabled that he had just ventured to drive rapidly past Berlin's secret air bases "without stopping," adding: "Barbed wire encloses...
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