LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE GERMAN PROBLEM
Sm,—The letters of Sir Herbert Grierson and Sir Geoffrey Bracken published in your issue of August 11th, within a short while of the war's end, are so shocking to European sense that I ask again for a brief space to refute them. Sir Herbert Grierson, after repeating Miss Rathbone's excuses for the second fight to the finish of the German people, falls back on the old trick of over-estimating the German Churches. I have quoted their utterances, which show quite clearly what we have always known both in this war and the last. The German Churches have for generations done their best to foster militarism. They may protest against persecu- tion at home, but never against aggression and all the atrocities with which their Second God, the German Army, has twice accompanied this sanctified policy. The Archbishop of Canterbury once suggested that he had evidence to the contrary. I published mine and asked for his. He did not reply. Sir Herbert Grierson invites us to build upon Pastor Niemoller. Anyone who asks Europe to trust this violent nationalist will get the answer that such folly deserves.
Sir Geoffrey Bracken continues the sniping against unconditional sur- render on well-worn German grounds. "It will help the Nazis, it will stiffen resistance." We all know those moves. Yet unconditional surrender Is in sight! Even that does not silence the dupes. "It will embitter future relations," suggests Sir Geoffrey Bracken. What, more than the renewal of the incendiary German suggestion that they never lost the war? Are we even now to take no account of past experience? None whatever, says Sir Geoffrey Bracken. Let the Germans again try the war-criminals! Like last time.
What, Sir, is Europe expected to moment? The time for pleasantries Denham Place, Denham, Bucks. think of such islanders at such a is past.—Yours truly, VANSITTART.
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