ANGLO-GERMAN FELLOWSHIP• 17Islands. Fleming persuaded the Japanese that the largely uninhabited
atolls, located between Burma and India in the Indian Ocean, were
politically significant because they were the only Indian territory oc-
cupied by the Japanese during the conflict, and he succeeded in iso-
lating a large enemy force for much of the war. At the end of
hostilities, the islands were liberated by a small force with no
fighting.ANDERSON, SIR ROBERT.The assistant commissioner of theMet-
ropolitan Policeuntil 1901, Robert Anderson had been a civil ser-
vant in the office of Lord Mayo, the chief secretary for Ireland, when
in 1868 he was appointed as an adviser in the Home Office on politi-
cal crime. Anderson had employed an agent, Thomas Beach, alias
‘‘Major Henri le Caron,’’ to penetrate the ranks of the Fenian Broth-
erhood in the United States and foil several plots, including a plan to
dynamite Westminster Abbey during the Jubilee service of thanks-
giving in 1887. In that year Anderson wrote a series of anonymous
articles for theTimesdescribing what had been achieved by under-
cover operations, but his authorship did not become public until
1910, long after his retirement, when he made more controversial
disclosures inBlackwood’smagazine, prompting demands that he
forfeit his pension for revealing secrets.
ANDRE ́, JOHN.While serving as adjutant-general to General Sir
Henry Clinton, the commander of British troops in New York during
the American Revolution, Major John Andre ́of the 54th Foot Regi-
ment ran the local intelligence apparatus. He was arrested in Septem-
ber 1780 while meeting one of his agents, Benedict Arnold. Andre ́
had negotiated the surrender of the fortifications at West Point, New
York, but had been caught as he attempted to return to the British
lines with a safe-conduct pass signed by Arnold. He was tried and
hanged at Tappan, New York, in October 1780, the British having
refused to exchange Arnold for him. In 1821 his body was exhumed
from a grave at the foot of the gallows and reinterred at Westminster
Abbey.
ANGLO-GERMAN FELLOWSHIP.A society with an open mem-
bership, the Anglo-German Fellowship was dedicated to the im-