24 MARCH 1939, Page 6

One of the most encouraging remarks I have seen about

the crisis occurred in a message in Monday's Daily Express from the paper's Berlin correspondent, who wrote: "Many Germans listened to Mr. Chamberlain's speech or the German version broadcast from London. In fact every German I have met in the last thirty-six hours had heard it. One said, 'Mr. Chamberlain was a little too near the mark. We Ger- mans heard Hitler give those promises on the radio, and that is why Hider would never allow his newspapers to publish Mr. Chamberlain's speech in full with its accusations.'" Magna est veritas, and it is just possible that given time, praevalebit. But—" given time" ?