2 JANUARY 1942, Page 13

, g THE WAR AND CHRISTMAS "

Sift,—It would seem that the Spirit, rather than the Letter, guided the writer of this article (or the printer) in one instance: " to see freedom perish and the regime of the concentration-camp and the shooting-squad take its hideous toll throughout Europe unresisted is in most men's eyes a lesser evil than recourse to force in the name of right to counter force wielded by indisputably evil men for as evil [We offer our apologies for the slip. "Lesser " should, as the context fortunately showed clearly, have been " greater." Actually a correction made in proof failed to reach the printer.—En. The Spectator.]