A good many thousand columns have been written in the
last year or two on the condition of Central Europe, but for me, at least, the realities of the situation have rarely been more revealingly put than they were by an Austrian who said to me last week, "Nothing struck me so much, when I was in England a couple of months ago, as the perfectly normal and natural way in which various people I met were talking about arrangements for next summer. We here shouldn't dream of making arrangements for as far ahead as Christmas. We never think beyond next month. Who can tell what may come to us by then ? " An experienced Englishman resident in Vienna to whom I repeated that, said at once, "That's precisely the position. There you have in a sentence the whole position and outlook of Central Europe." It is as well to realise in what worlds other people not imlike ourselves are living.
Twins.
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