UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER
Sta,—In your issue of March 23rd contributor Nicolson under " Marginal Comment " appears vexed and confused about General Eisenhower's dictum of " Unconditional Surrender " which he refers to as " that care- less Yankee phrase, illogical, unwise and inexact." Perhaps it is in British phraseology, especially separated from its context. In American historical and military annals it is quite precise, succinct and to the point. Any American schoolboy or member of the German General Staff can tell you that General Eisenhower is merely borrowing the term from the correspondence of another prodigious American, General Ulysses S Grant, known to us a3" Unconditional Surrender Grant." The oppos- ing forces submitting to his (Grant's) terms of unconditional surrender had no cause to feel dishonoured or degraded. Let our present enemies remember this as well as the sterner aspects of military defeat—Sincerely
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