THE POLICY OF MUNICH
Sta,—I am sure that many of your readers will resent the pages of The Spectator being besmirched by such a letter as that from Professor Brogan published in your last week's issue. Apart from the deplorable taste of it, coming just at this time, it is obviously inspired by undis- guised hostility towards a great public servant, who has striven with all his might for peace and whose only fault was that, rather than plunge his country into the horrors of war, he preferred to take the risk in September, 1938, of trusting the solemn word of the head of the German State, who had not then been proved to be the liar that we now know him to be. I would commend to Mr. Brogan the example of our present Prime Minister whose touching and generous tribute to his former chief has gladdened all worthy hearts.
When the present war is over and the time comes for history to pronounce its balanced verdict, I do not doubt that it will find that, while it was beyond his power to conserve the peace for which he strove so hard, Mr. Chamberlain did save his country in 1938 from being overwhelmed by the German onslaught from the air to which be knew there was then no adequate defence.—Your obedient servant,
W. W. PAINE.
[Subject to Professor Brogan's right of reply this correspondence is closed.—En., The Spectator.]
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