It is good because it is not a secret--certainly not a spy service at all.

It is all aboveboard and it is all done by men of high honour and good character--I mean the Embassy staff.

Counting the attaches there are about twenty good men, every one of whom moves in a somewhat different circle from any other one.

Every one cultivates his group of English folk, in and out of official life, and his group in the diplomatic corps.

There isn't a week but every man of them sees his particular sources of information--at their offices, at the Embassy, at luncheon, at dinner, at the clubs--everywhere.