SPIES: Tongue Control

Prime Minister Chamberlain lent seriousness to Great Britain's antispy campaign by announcing in Parliament that his Government is considering drastic steps to keep information from the enemy. The Ministry of Information last week lent gaiety to this campaign. For distribution throughout the land it published a series of posters designed to make talkative Britons "tongue conscious." They show a furtive, ubiquitous little Adolf Hit ler, pencil & paper in hand, listening in to British conversations everywhere: curled up under a bus seat, in a luggage rack, against a telephone booth, under...

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