GERMANY AS A HUMAN PROBLEM
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
SIR,—Miss Eleanor F. Rathbone, M.P., accompanies her remarks on " Germany as a Human Problem " with so many obvious proofs of factual misinformation that to correct all her incorrect statements would be im- possible in a letter to the Editor.
Will you therefore allow me to refer only to the part of Miss Rath- bone's remarks where she urges that the problem of Germany must be solved not with a novelist's but with a statesman's mind. May I put before Miss Rathbone the following concrete and defined question: If experience as well as contemporary expediency should ask for the sacrifice of Bismarck's creation of the German Reich (not to speak of Hitler's Reich), comprising a population of some 70 to 80 million Germans, in order that 35o million non-German Europeans plus the whole population of the British Empire may live in peace, comfort and pibgress, would Miss Rathbone agree that " Statesmanship " were justified in establishing such a renewed European order?
Does it really never enter the thoughts of some people with very wide humanitarian convictions that in life ,(and in history) sometimes situations arisg where not everybody can be " made happy " ? For a hundred years now, European Statesmanship (including British) has concerned itself more or less exclusively with the up-building of Germany's happiness and contentment. How about some modest con- siderations concerning the future contentment of Britain and her Allies,
Miss Rathbone?--I am, Sir, yours truly, FREDERICK JELLINEK.
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