10 MAY 1945, Page 12

THE GERMAN CAPITAL

SIR,—In addition to the two reasons given by "Janus " for changing the German capital from Berlin, there is a third, equally important. The inevitable result of making the capital of Prussia also the capipi of the Reich, in 1871, was to increase the domination of Prussia an.] Prussianism and encourage the spread of militarism and reaction throug - out the rest of Germany. Various alternatives have been proposed, suJI as Ratisbon (Regensburg), Augsburg or Frankfort—all once Imper