"THE TIMES"
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—If there is a real danger of the German executive basing their policy on an erroneous conviction that this country will default on its guarantees in Eastern Europe rather than go to war, it follows that the most dangerous institution in this country, perhaps in Europe, is The Times newspaper. It seems to me to be a matter of the greatest urgency that this terrible danger should be neutralised by prompt and effective measures.
The danger arises, not from the opinions which The Times is, of course, as free to express as any other organ, but from the widespread belief abroad that these opinions and the hints and nuances which accompany them represent as in a kind of secret code the effective views of our own executive. This belief could, and surely should without a moment's delay, be largely dispelled by means of an official pronounce- ment on the subject made by a responsible member of the Cabinet and the repeated broadcasting of that pronouncement in all the B.B.C.'s foreign broadcasts.—Yours, &c.,
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