THE BILL AGAINST GERMANY
SIR,—Mr. Harold Nicolson ended his "Marginal Comment " last week with the statement that whatever happens we shall not again dread defeat.. In The Spectator of April 3oth, 1943, an article with the title " The Bill Against Germany " ended with the following sentence: " All we are concerned with is to take such measures as to make it certain that Germany will never again, at any rate in the lifetime of this generation, be in a position to plunge the world into carnage." (The italics are mine.) The word generation used in this sense is usually computed at thirty years. I would like to suggest to Mr Nicolson not to be too sure that we won't dread defeat again. We and the Americans have the very best intentions towards Germany after the war. We are going to teach her to be good and kind to her neighbours. But the road that is paved with good intentions has many pitfalls. It is hedged with disagreements. If Sherman were alive he would say that it leads to
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