29 SEPTEMBER 1944, page 10

Marginal Comment

By HAROLD NICOLSON O Nopening The Times newspaper last Saturday, my eye fell upon a letter from a retired Squadron-Leader, in which he deplored the " incalculable harm " being......

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It is inevitable after five years of atrocious war that our judge- ment should be clouded by . the emotions of fear and hatred. It is thus salutary to reflect that such emotions......

The Confusion Of Thought And Feeling Which Arise In Such

matters are connected with the fundamental conflict between peace and war. The Germans, who believe in power as the determining factor in human affairs, suffer from no such......

Precept, And It Must Be Sharp And Formidable, Will Not

suffice in itself. We must educate the Germans by our example. The Ger- man people have never had the chance of learning that strength, if wholly self-confident, can be a gentle......

My Mind Went Back To A Scene Which Took Place

in M. Clemen- ceau's study in Paris at the beginning of 1919. Against the advice of several members of the British Cabinet—and notably of Mr. Winston Churchill—the blockade of......