The British Legion in Germany The visit of the British
Legion delegation to Germany will no doubt do good, but it shows how easily in a country in the state of Germany foreigners may be involved against their will in internal political dissensions. A visit the Legion representatives were to pay to the Nationalist ex-service men of the Stahlhelm on Tuesday was suddenly cancelled, and they were whirled off instead to General Goering's estate at Scharfheide, but deprived of the, privilege of• seeing its owner, who was elsewhere. The Stahlhelm is at present in disgrace, primarily in Baden, as displaying a political moderation inconsistent with Nazi ideals. The difficulty about visits like those of the Legion is that they may too easily he represented as a mark of cordiality towards an administration that must bear responsibility for such outbreaks of brutality as the anti-Jewish riots of last Monday, since a leading member of the administration, Dr. Goebbels, is a public instigator of such persecution. Conventional courtesy demands a certain reticence on the part of guests, but nothing could be more fundamentally alien to the traditional generosity of the British Legion than the racial and religious oppression prevalent in Germany today.
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