OUR RHINE FRONTIER
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I was interested to read in your note to Wing-Com- mander James' letter published in The Spectator of August 10th under the heading " Great Britain's Frontier," with reference to Mr. Baldwin's statement that our frontier lies on the Rhine, the declaration that in no " precise " sense is our frontier on that river. I do not know of course what" precise" significance is to be attached in this particular connexion to the word" precise "—but surely inasmuch as we, at Locarno, guaranteed from attack the eastern frontier of France and the -western frontier of Germany, our frontier, so long as we mean to stick to our obligations, may be said to be practically on the Rhine.
Therefore it seems to me that Mr. Baldwin did mean probably practically precisely what he said. Anyhow it is
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