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Swedish foreign office to send me as a diplomatic courier. My wife and I
sent our luggage off in advance and took the train up to Stockholm.
There we learned that the travel bureau had cancelled all trips to the
United States, as the Germans had by now invaded France, Holland, and
Belgium. We decided to take a chance and try to sail from Italy.
"With the blueprints in my briefcase and two dismantled ciphering
machines in a bag, we boarded the Trelleborg-Sassnitz-Berlin express.
Our luck held. We rattled right through the heart of Germany and
arrived unmolested three days later in Genoa. That night the windows of
our hotel were smashed—because we had innocently chosen to stay at
the Hotel Londra and Italy was now at war with Britain. But we reached
New York on the last outward-bound voyage of the Conte di Savoia."
This breathless escape proved worth it. The U.S. Army liked the
machine, though it insisted on further tests. Hage-lin got 50 machines
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