24 MARCH 1933, Page 18

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] notice that both that

section of the Press and those individuals in this country who most admire Hitler are those who shrieked most frantically during the War for the total crushing of Germany. Now, as anyone knows who has studied the Nazi movement in Germany itself, the rise of Hitler to power is the direct result of the dictated peace of Versailles. Thus we have the ludicrous spectacle of the perpe- trators of folly admiring the unhealthy reaction to their own misdeeds. - Possibly the psycho-analysts and other students of war and post-war "neuroses " would diagnose this particular symptom of the said neurosis as a form of unconscious Narcissism, or, perhaps, after all, merely the natural reactions of those whose "spiritual home" is the Stone am, Sir, &c.,