SIR,—I hope that there are more people than Mr. Graham
Watson seems to fear, who are not afraid of honest hatred of the Germans, whether Nazis or not, for the atrocities which they have committed. Certainly I believe that the recent terrorist use of Vi against Southern England has swelled the ranks of those who share Mr. Watson's opinions.
But clearly there are still many converts to be made, even among the troops engaged in the fighting. A clear instance of this is shown by a photograph in one of the daily papers of September 16th in which al German family in their home near Aachen " is sitting down to a meal from U.S. Army rations, given them by the troops, who were among the first to break into Germany." One must admire the behaviour of American troops to the occupants of the liberated countries, but surely one might expect some different treatment of the enemy, and I doubt whether Russian troops would have treated German families on the Eastern front, or whether the Americans would have treated the Japanese, in the way that this picture appears to suggest.—Yours faithfully, NANCY PERRIN.
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