10 FEBRUARY 1939, Page 14

The Germans are equally unaccountable in this respect.

They devoted a large proportion of their available foreign exchange to what on the whole was a sensible and intelligent attempt to justify their aims and actions. In this country, and especially among the propertied classes, their efforts met with much success. And then with true German Tiichtigkeit, with planned frightfulness, they destroy the edifice which, with such careful effort, they had reared.

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