15 SEPTEMBER 1923, Page 12

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Massingharn, in the course

of his plea for the German people in the Spectator of September 1st, says : "Millions of human beings are sinking, or floating distractedly, like the passengers of the ' Titanic.' " What a curiously unhappy simile I Why not the Lusitania Y-1 am, Sir, &c.,