7 APRIL 1923, Page 2

Feeling against Russia is so bitter indeed in Poland that

it seems to have impaired the national senses of beauty and humour. For some of her citizens intend to pull down the Orthodox Cathedral in Warsaw simply because its architecture is Russian and not Polish. The Middle Ages went to a good many- extremes, and not so very long ago we saw a false nationalism bring forth various bastard acts of foolishness, but never has anything quite so silly as this been proposed before. As well destroy the Alhambra because it is Moorish, or burn the Titians and Rembrandts in the National Gallery if Italy or Holland did not please us.