Dlt. OSCAR LEVY.
[To THE EDITOR or THE SPECTATOR."]
understand that according to the Alien Restriction (Amendment) Act, 1919, Section 10, 1, the Home Office is authorized to dismiss me from this country, a country in which I have resided with only one interruption since 18944 My wife, being also a German citizen, is likewise compelled to leave England, while our only child, a daughter of twelve years old, born and bred in Great Britain, is permitted to remain. The authorities assure me that my personal character has nothing to do with their derision to expel me. On the eve of my enforced departure I should like to express my heartfelt gratitude to those faithful friends who have, though without success, intervened on my behalf at the Home Office. I should likewise feel honoured if the numerous scholars and men of
letters, here and in America, who have derived some pleasure, profit, or enlightenment from my literary labours will for the future hold me in kindly remembrance. As for my enemies, to whom apparently I owe my expulsion, I can only remind them that the last word on the subject of the Nietzschean philosophy has not by any means been spoken, and that even Its final condemnation would not alter in the least the claim I hiake with honourable satisfaction to having been the first pioneer both in England and America of one of the most
important manifestations of European thought. am, Sir, &c., °semi Lzvr 'Editor of the authorised English Translation of Nietzsche's Works). Royal Societies Club, St. James's Street.
[Our readers may remember that we reviewed (October 9th, 1920) a book by Captain George Pitt-Rivers entitled The World Significance of the Russian Revolution, to which Dr. Levy had written an introduction. In his remarkable and rather start- ling contribution Dr. Levy accused his own race of sinister designs, and derided them for their European blunders. We think he greatly overstated his case. His anti-revolutionary sentiments led him on to write what we regarded as injurious end absurd things about demOcracy. But all this gives us no elite to why Dr. Levy should be expelled. It certainly is not because he is a Jew. It cannot be because he despises revolu- tionary Jews. It is scarcely because he translated Nietzsche. No doubt the Home Office has some reason which it thinks cogent. We should very much like to know, because on general grounds we greatly dislike the expulsion of aliens when they have attached themselves to this country for a long time and lived as decent citizens.—ED. Spectator.]
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