Let me tell you what is happening today in America. It has been discovered that in the last 20 years, China has been consistently stealing information about American nuclear warheads and missiles to modernize their nuclear weapons program. According to a Congressional Committee investigation, it found evidence that relentless espionage, assiduous research and open exchanges with American scientists, had saved China incalculable time and money in its drive to build a modern nuclear arsenal. However China achieved this remarkable feat, the most important point is that it followed the Caucasian and copied his methods. In the process, China has saved itself incalculable time and money in reaching its goal. The Chinese understood that America had built a great “mousetrap.” It didn’t need to go 7
until America could transport her strong young forces across the Atlantic. It was to be now or never, and the imperial government lashed its weary troops and hungry civilians for the supreme effort that was to bring final victory. It was no less clear to the Allies that Germany planned to launch a climactic offensive in the spring. There were many signs—the new cipher itself was one. The question was: Where and when would the actual blow fall? The German high command, recognizing the incalculable military value of surprise, shrouded its plans in the tightest secrecy. Artillery was brought up in concealment; feints were flung out here and there along the entire front to keep the Allies off balance; the ADFGVX cipher, which had reportedly been chosen from among many candidates by a conference of German cipher specialists, constituted an element in this overall security, as did the new Schliis-selheft. The Allies bent every effort