16 SEPTEMBER 1949, Page 15

Sta,—Would Lord Kemsley be willing to tell us whether the

whole of the Dirksen Minute of August 2nd, 1939 (Dirksen Papers No. 23), to which I referred in my article, is incorrect, or whether any of it holds good ? It would be helpful to those of us who are working on recent history to know exactly. The text we have is translated from the German by the Russians, who have not yet been found to-falsify such documents, though they obviously select those that suit them for publication. I regret a week's delay in putting this question.—Yours faithfully,

ELIZABETH WISKEMANN.