CHATTER BUG

the la [Music] your careless talk can give the enemy valuable details of information details fragments odd bits and pieces which he can string together into a complete pattern of our plans you may think you can trust the person you're talking to a close relation a lifelong friend but you never know whether he or she will pass it on you never know until it's too late and just as you have trusted them they may trust someone else one by one they pass it on before you realize what's happened your scrap of information has become common gossip [Music] next please sooner or later your news will reach an enemy agent and who's to blame all the Loos mouthed careless fools who talked and more particularly you don't think that careless talk only comes from the fellow who can't hold his drink and his tongue at the same time it comes from all sorts of people in all sorts of places they just taking me to the dance of the Town Hall Saturday week that's what he thinks you know I here quite a luot when I'm driving a major about Only Yesterday I heard him tell Captain Brown that we'll be moving before then overseas at that wasn't the ra terrific last night I never heard such a noise and did you hear the new bomb the kind that crackles instead of danging that's Hitler's new weapon of course it's terribly secret but my husband's in the Home Guard so naturally he knows all about it home guard well you can tell him from the army that that bomb's our new EG gun it don't fire a normal Shell at all it fires a well it's a it's got a king and um it's a it's a lovely of from your ear lately that's SM only an airra three months ago my old man that his leave cancelled again only want go oh to P people do this morning they seem to be terribly overworked at the Depot of course they are du surely you know why Mr Smith's boy is a dick cot too and he says they're refitting the 20th Army for overseas he your lovely K oh so that's what it is is it my husband always says if only had a chance of talking to General Alexander sometimes you yourself are so familiar with the information that you imagine there's nothing secret about it at all yes but in experience these all wave sets are always defective on one wavelength nonsense now take a number n set works okay got low W short way and intercom in fact there's a coral everyday knowledge to him but it may be news to the [Music] enemy and take another case the times when you don't real realize that your information has any real military value at all well as it happens I can let you have a f the colonel just made us all go and have new ones taken passport side of course he's crazy we've all got perfectly good ones in our 2 606s already it doesn't seem very important does it but the enemy may know even if you don't that these new photographs mean that your unit is going overseas shortly these rules all apply while you're still at home but they apply even more when you go overseas when you're overseas careless talk becomes even more dangerous the nearer you are to the enemy the quicker the information can reach him and the better use he can make of it and Foreign Service wherever it may be brings two new points to watch first don't trust too much to the friendliness of the native population even though they welcome you with open arms do you Remember The Cordial welcome our troops received when they entered [Music] Benghazi now see how the same people welcomed the Hun a few months later ready apparently to cheer all [Music] comers the second point is even more important don't imagine that foreigners can't understand English just because they show no signs of doing so overseas too there is always a tendency to relax when you're behind the lines a feeling that you're miles away from the enemy and that no one who met us can hear what you say don't you believe it it's still careless talk and it's still dangerous you know we should have been in a hell of a mess if the Navy hadn't come along you weren't holding the place very strongly were you strongly we only had a company in a heart you know that sector always has been very lightly held Lord knows what will happen if the Hun Dees again still maybe he thinks we are stronger than we are there's another time when you're liable to relax and that is when you are wounded but once again remember foreigners May understand English even though they don't appear to and the same to you Miss oh thank you Miss English she knows what you mean corpse she can see it in your eye that's why she's leaving you she reminds me of my dear old granny all the same I bet some of the boys up the line could do with a few extra like this and a bit of H work like that can't you just hear the old man the tent Treasures don't smoke in the line no they don't have women neither poor beggar you know they're not due to be relieved for a fortnite how' you know well the seven fles are taking over from them and they had to stay in R but it's till Friday week car it out you two that's K's talk that's all right she don't speak English Sergeant think I'd still be lying here if she did hey outside you fore [Music] so in your own interest always guard your tongue don't let benity show off your knowledge don't let drink oil your tongue don't trust anyone not even your best friend don't imagine that foreigners can't understand don't relax behind the lines and never take friendliness for granted tiny fragments of news may not seem vital in the eles but added together they can build up into a mass of information and tell the enemy exactly what he wants to know there's only one safe way to keep a secret wherever you are keep your mouth [Music] shut for