COUNT SFORZA AND SIR AUSTEN . CHAMBERLAIN [To the Editor of
THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the review of Count Sforza's Europe and Europeans in your issue of October 2nd occurs the following passage :
"Count SfOrza also offers us a few unfamiliar footnotes to history :
'When Stresenciann communicated to' the British Foreign Office in February, 1925, the draft of the plan which later became the Locarno Pact, Sir Austen Chamberlain discarded it as of no importance and informed Stresemann that he thought his ideas "unwise and premature " ; which .did not a little later stop his being awarded the Garter as one of the promoters of Locarno.' "
The time has not yet come to tell in detail the history of this negotiation. All I can say is that Count Sforza has been misinformed.—I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
The Goring Hotel, S.W. 1.
AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN.
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