4 JUNE 1942, Page 4

Viscountess Simon, I observe, wants (not, would like if it

we possible) Germany to be wiped off the face of the earth. I do n criticise the aspiration ; I am only anxious to try and understand What is the Germany that is to be thus eliminated? Does it me eighty million Germans? And does Lady Simon desire the complete extermination, " city by city," village by village a individual by individual, women as well as men, children as w as women? Or is it simply that Germany as a political entity is disappear? If so, the question of how the vacuum is to be fill becomes interesting. The problem of how to evolve a Euro without Germany is worth solving.