19 APRIL 1935, Page 17

[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] .SIR,—In your issue of

April 5th you comment : " Is it con- ceivable that Germany would ever attack Russia, or Russia Germany, if it was . . . even reasonably probable that such an action would bring this country . . . into the field against the aggressor ? "

. But what would be the practical value of this theory in a situation like that of 1914. when Germany and Russia each attacked the other in the belief that the other was the aggres- sor ? Does any country ever " attack " another except in [With the League Covenant and the Kellogg Pact in exis- tence there cannot be a situation like that of 1914. To fire the first shot is today a bread' of treaty, and the peace-keeping States must unite against the State that fires it.—En. The Spectator.]