And to you the army says: "This is our war.

We will fight it in our own way, and of it you can learn only what we choose to tell you.

We will not let you know whether your country is winning the fight or is in danger, whether we have blundered and the soldiers are starving, whether they gave their lives gloriously or through our lack of preparation or inefficiency are dying of neglected wounds." And if you answer that you will send with the army men to write letters home and tell you, not the plans for the future and the secrets of the army, but what are already accomplished facts, the army makes reply: "No, those men cannot be trusted.

They are spies." Not for one moment does the army honestly think those men are spies.

But it is the excuse nearest at hand.