SIR,—Miss Eleanor Rathbone in her letter says of the German
people: " Perhaps they should have foreseen, though foreign Governments and their ambassadors in Berlin did not, what Hitler was up to and should have overthrown him before he became irresistible."
Surely no man ever put down more clearly in black and white " what he was up to " than Hitler when he wrote Mein Kampf, though his plans for the expansion of the German Reich therein described seemed at the time to the non-German diplomat, if he ever read the book, so fantastic that he did not take them seriously. And is not the greatest condemnation of the German people as a whole just this: that, knowing from his book " what Hitler was up to," instead of condemning his policy as Machiavellian and retrograde, they gave it their support? Surely a nation that accepts Mein Kampf as- its Bible (or, more correctly, as it was the work of one prophet as its Koran) by so doing condemns itself. Mein Kantpf is at least an " honest " book, in the sense that a burglar who makes no denial of his profession is an honest man.—Yours faith-
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