Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Enemy Within: Hitherto Unpublished Details of the Great Conspiracy to Corrupt and Destroy France
France was almost destroyed during the last five years, not by German guns, but by a moral plague. Far beyond the black pall of the enemy's barrage, far, far beyond the range of the most powerful Krupp cannon, there were other, invisible foes spreading contagion everywhere among the French people. It was a pestilence of falsehood, of hatred, of treason.
Its manifestations were many and most mysterious. It appeared in munition strikes, army mutinies, the amazing boldness and apparently unrestricted activity of German spies; in pamphlets and newspaper editorials constantly emphasizing the "selfishness" of England, the "money making idealism" of the United States, the "impregnability" of Germany, the need of a "reapproachment with Teuton democracy," and most of all the "blessings of an immediate peace."
Some of the men who plotted these crimes were not caught until France was on the brink of ruin. Others, of high station and mysteriously potent political power, almost escaped under a counterfire of recrimination against those who exposed them. For example, the offices of one editor who had accused the head of the police of being a traitor were raided. Guns were found, which, the police said, indicated a royalist plot. Later investigation showed that these arms were heirlooms, used for decorative purposes.
Some of the plotters have been shot as traitors. A few wore caught, as it were, with German gold still sticking to their fingers.
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