That enterprising little organisation, " Friends of Europe," has done
a very useful service in reprinting in pamphlet form Herr Hitler's foreign policy speech of last May, but I am not nearly so sure about its wisdoM in issuing at the same time a critical commentary by Sir Malcolm Robertson, based largely on quotations • from Mein Kampf. It is true, and it is a pity, that that notorious volume is still circulated in unrevised form and regarded' as the gospel of the Nazi movement. But even so, if there is some incompatibility between the policies embodied in a volume written in prison by a defeated rebel in 1924 and those proclaimed to the world by the titular head of the German Reich in 1935, it is reasonable to regard the latter as the more authoritative, pending proof to the contrary. That proof can only be secured by putting the matter to the test. In the only case in which the May policy has been put to the test, over naval limitation, Herr Hitler stuck to his word. Bat' he made several other notable offers regarding reduction of armaments,. and it is a great pity they have not been followed up. It is quite time they were.
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