20 JULY 1944, Page 11

SIR, —In the last War a brother very dear to me

was killed in battle. A few weeks ago my only daughter in the prime of life was killed by enemy action. From these two facts I have learnt a simple truth. The boy, killed in the full strength of his young manhood 27 yea-s ago ; the girl, full of life and energy, killed in her sleep by a German bomb a few weeks ago. These, with many thousands like them, died not because of the Kaiser or Prussianism, not because of Hitler or Nazism, but because the German people are what they are. For the good of posterity, may those who mourn, and those who read and hear with horror of the infamies perpetuated by Germans on the helpless and defenceless, reflect,