[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of
August 10th Mr. Bosworth Goldman points to the common religious faith of S. Germany, Austria and Hungary as a strong argument for their federation.
There is another strong argument in "the lie of the land" in S. Germany. Its land slopes predominantly to the East. So, consequently, its rivers flow. So, as a further consequence, its people, its trade, its whole economic life has its natural movement eastwards along the Danube and on into Austria and Hungary.
N. Germany has its slope to the North and West. That way go its rivers and its trade to the North Sea. River basins should never be ignored in drawing political boundaries.
Into the political arguments for and _against such a federa- tion of these three Danube basin countries I will not enter, except to remind readers that Bavaria, soon after Versailles, was anxious to break away from N. Germany and unite herself with Austria. The politicians prevented it. Many of us felt that in so doing they showed lack of foresight.—I am, Si,,. &C.,
MARY M. ADAMSON.
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