LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
LORD KEMSLEY AND DR. DIRKSEN
SIR,-I regret to learn that your correspondents Elizabeth Wiskemann and Martin Wight doubt my word. I had a conversation with the German Ambassador Dirksen, on August 2nd, 1939. He did not submit to me the account he afterwards wrote of it in a minute sent to Berlin. This was unearthed by the Russians after the war, translated from German into Russian, and an English version made by the Russians and published by them in Moscow last year. It is on this evidence that your two corres- pondents apparently reject my categorical denial that I ever uttered words such as Dirksen's minutes would put into my mouth. To that categorical denial I have nothing to add.
Miss Wiskemann's specific query is best answered by referring her to my own full account of my visit to Germany in July, 1939, which was included in W. W. Hadley's Munich and After, published by Cassell's in
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