Sit,—Will Mr. McEwen perhaps explain how he considers it possible
to break up Germany and keep it broken into two or more German States against the will of their inhabitants? Is he prepared to keep great armies of occupation there for all time, for, as he must know, a long as a foreign Power attempts to dictate to a people how it is to be governed or organised, the hostility of that people will grow and must ultimately boil over? Did not the Versailles " Settlement" in part attem2t the break-up of Germany? I do not refer to the separa- tion of non-German lands from the Reich. And what has been the result? The Nazi Revolution and the present war. If the German peoples had been left alone to organise their governments as ther wished we might have had today not only separate Germany and Austria, but even separate States of North and South German, certainly not the strongly centralised sole State with which civilisa- tion is faced. Isn't it wise, if we wish to detach the German peoples from their Government, to let them know at once that after the war we intend to leave it to them to decide whether they should have one or two or more States? We may then not only get Mr. McEweit ideal, but also shorten the war.—Yours obediently,
ALBERT M. HYAMSON.
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