10 MARCH 1939, Page 6

Here, for what it is worth, is a sentence from

a conver- sation with a well-informed, representative and non-political German—not an émigré. "Suppose," I asked him, "Mussolini levelled demands against France unsuccessfully, would the people of Germany be willing to go to war in support of Italy?" "The only war the people of Germany would go into willingly," he answered slowly and emphati- cally, "would be a war against Italy." He felt bound to add that, if the Fiihrer decreed it, the people would pretty certainly march. But for how long? * *