A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
THE statement in an American newspaper that Great Britain is considering recognising de jure a German Government, to be formed in London, and numbering among its members Dr. Rauschning, Dr. Rudolf Breitscheid and Herr Treviranus, is palpable nonsense. It would be folly for this country to recognise any German Government except one plainly representing the will of the German people, and Germans have no means of expressing any will at all at present. The names, moreover, are obviously picked at random from the long list of distinguished German emigres, and except for Dr. Rauschning, not very well picked. It is hardly likely that Dr. Breitscheid, who is in France, will resume active political life, and Herr Treviranus, who is in this country, is fully occupied with business responsibilities. That is not to say that there is not among the German exiles in Britain, France, Switzerland and elsewhere (Dr. Bruning is one of them) the making of an efficient government with a strong title to public confidence in Germany and out of it. At a later stage of the struggle that fact may be of con- siderable importance. But not today.
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