NATIONALISM IN RUSSIA SIR.—I am afraid I missed Mr. Barraclough's
letter, as he missed mine. But may I, even this late, at least say that a rereading of Mr. Barraclough's original review does not justify his claim that all he said or implied about Ukrainian nationalism was that it proved a deception to the Germans. any more than what he said about the German ambassador could possibly bear any other meaning from that attached to it by Mr. FitzGibbon. Nor, of course, is it at all `self-evident' that Ukrainian nationalism proved a deception to the Germans. Since they never made serious trial of it they were not deceived by it. It may be remembered that they ruled the Ukraine through the revolting Koch, who used personally to beat up villagers who had the impertinence to offer bread and salt to the Germans.—Yours faithfully,
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