12 JANUARY 1940, Page 20

THE BRITISH PEOPLE'S PARTY

Sit,—In his letter published by you last week, Mr. George Edinger refers to the British People's party as pro-German and pacifist, and remarks that we show a surprising tendency to accept the German propaganda arguments wholesale.

As Mr. Edinger believes that we should fight Germany in order to rescue the German people, among others, from Herr Hitler, and the British People's party believes that the German people should work out their own salvation, and that interference in another country's internal affairs is not worth the life of a single British soldier, it seems that the charge of pro-Germanism might with more truth be directed to Mr. Edinger and those people who believe as he does.

The sweeping statement that we accept German propa- ganda wholesale ought in common decency to be supported by evidence. What evidence can Mr. Edinger produce to prove this?—Yours faithfully,