" UNEASY EUROPE "
Sui,—The Doenitz tactics seem to be succeeding quite well, and this morning's Times and The Spectator provide two examples. First, The Times, whose Copenhagen correspondent writes: " The Germans on Bornholm, in accordance with Doenitz's instructions to them to fight the Russians while giving in to the armies of the Western Powers, went on fighting after the Germans in the rest of the country had laid down their arms. . . . Some thousands of Russians, assisted by Danish freedom fighters, are still rounding-up Germans on Bornholm." (May i7th.) The Times correspondent also states that the island of Bornholm lies within the sphere of Russian influence as a result of the military demarcation lines agreed on, and that " the Danish Government is not troubled by this state of affairs."
Now for The Spectator ; to wit, the leading article, " Uneasy Europe," whose main purpose is to complain of Soviet " misdemeanours." Among a whole list of such alleged misdemeanours is an attack on Russia for
the " Occupation " of -Bornholm. Hitler promised General Wolf earlier this year that the Allies would fall out in time to save them. He wn wrong. But what of the future? The anti-Russian campaign now so widespread, to be seen in a sixpenny weekly like The Spectator or any penny evening paper, makes many of us see a danger of Hitler's wish being fulfilled after A.—Yours, &c.,
R. GORE GRAHAM (Pte.) R.A.O.C.
4-r Meadway, London, N.W. ri.
[A Spectator article written on the t6th could not derive much advan- tage from statements appearing in The Times of the 18th. What we wrote was fully justified by the information available at the time. It was specifically stated that there was no intention of permanent occupation.- ' ED., Spectator.]
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