The Mountain Disaster The tragic disaster that overtook a party
of London schoolboys near Freiburg last Saturday has evoked on the part both of the local inhabitants and of the German Government an expression of practical sympathy sufficient to infuse for a moment at least a welcome warmth into Anglo-German relations. The blizzard on the Schauinsland must have been of exceptional ferocity for a comparatively brief exposure to have proved fatal to five boys of normal physique, but that, it appears, was the case, and it is clear that the disaster was due to no kind of carelessness or negligence. The villagers, the Hitler Youth Movement and the Government all co-operated to do honour to the victims and lend assistance in various forms to the survivors and the master in charge of them. The accident is one of those episodes that seize the attention for a moment and are soon forgotten. What ought to be diligently guarded from oblivion is the sudden and instinctively natural relation- ship created by the tragedy between individuals of two countries whose public and political relations are gravely strained. It is a tragedy of another kind that the former elationship should be so largely obliterated by the latter. * !!!
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