" SPIRITUAL DISARMAMENT" Sin,—After reading The Spectator for many years,
I dropped it, and I only recently began again. The first copy contained Dr. Joad's article, the point of which seemed to be to take away from our spiritual armoury what had hitherto been regarded as the nation's strongest weapon. It is true that Herr Hitler has also removed it from the German armoury, but he has sought to replace the Gospels by a German heroic Saga.
In your last issue Mr. Harold Nicolson, by attacking the four great poems on friendship in our language, and proving that au fond they have nothing to say on that subject, but are the outcome of nerves or something else, seems bent on removing another potent spiritual weapon.
Other writers may continue this task, but surely these articles on spiritual disarmament cancel out the numerous other articles on material rearmament with which the pages of The Spectator are at this time rightly filled. Is this good propaganda?—Yours, C. H. D. GRIMES. Villa Soleil Levant, Dinard.
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