[Te the Editor of THE SPECTATOR]
SIR,—TO the " Hymns of Hate " against Germany, which The Spectator prints with apparent approval, there is a notable addition this week in the letter which Mr. Hamilton Fyfe contributes.
Mr. Hamilton Fyfe is very proud of having been offensive to a German play producer, but does he seriously believe that such a letter helps in the least towards better understanding between two great countries ? I wonder whether to a similar invitation from that " democratic " country, Russia, Mr. Hamilton Fyfe would have refused, with a similar lecture on the " crimes against humanity," which Russia commits against Christians and others ? I doubt it.
Would it not be quite pertinent for a German to reply that as long as this democratic country_ tolerates the slow demoralisation of men and women in the Distressed Areas, he could have no pleasure in visiting England ?
It is not so long ago that England was responsible for the brutalities perpetrated by the " Black-and-Tans," but there are some things of which no country can be proud. Nothing good, however, is achieved by the exchange of partisan political
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