[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sta,—In the first paragraph
of last week's Spectator you wrote " It may be true that the small States cannot count on the League's effective protection, but when the head of the most powerful State in the League proclaims that in as many words on the floor of the rlouse of Commons, it sounds singularly like a plain invitation to dictators to carry Berchtesgaden methods to any length they please."
But surely if the small States cannot count on our protection it is only common honesty, if not our plain duty, to tell them so in as public a manner as possible, and without regard to results. To abandon the pretence is not to lose our ideals. That is why the man in the street, who hates shams, will
support the Prime Minister.—Yours truly, Oxford and Cambridge Club, Pall Mall, S.W. C. E. THEODOSIUS.
[There is another side to this. Dictators may pause if they are doubtful whether their acts will produce a reaction. Why assure them that there will be no reaction?—ED. The Spectator.]
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