" TRUTH IN WAR TIME "
SIR,—" As terminologically inexact as an Eyewitness's Account " bids fair to replace the Napoleonic cynicism " As lying as a Bulletin." In The Spectator of May 4th Mrs. Tate, M.P., in a report on Buchenwald, wrote: "The citizens of Weimar in the main looked anything' but cowed. They have never been bombed." (My italics throughout.) On the same date, and about the same subject, the correspondent of the New Statesman wrote: ".I walked through the streets, which are still behutiful and charming, in spite of the gaps torn by bombs"; arid, more circum- stantially: "The left wing of Goethe's house was hit by a bomb . . the ninth of February, 1945, at 72.4o in the morning." You, Sir, may be able to tell us which of the two is speaking the truth. It would, how- ever, be still more interesting to know why the other eyewitness asserted
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