Kronsten may be quite right. Having no actual evidence (though,
possibly, some suspicions) of Professor Brinkmann's political opinions, I confined myself to the mention of his academic standing. I do not hesitate to say, however, that even among his former friends in England Professor Brinkmann never, I believe, enjoyed the reputation of being exactly an Anglophile. Nevertheless, I find it a little difficult to understand why in 193o, when England had made some appreciable effort towards disarmament, a reference to Germany's " neighbours armed to the teeth "should necessarily have been an attack on this country. One would have thought that the criticism was directed rather against Russia and France, or, possibly, against the whole interpretation of the disarmament clauses in the Covenant of the League.
A correspondent has written to me that another academic German Rhodes Scholar whom I mentioned, Professor K. A. von Muller, may have been executed some years ago, together with some of his students, for protests against Nazi brutalities in Munich. I have no direct evidence of this, and if any of your readers has any information about it, I
should be grateful for it.—Yours faithfully, C. K. ALLEN. Rhodes House, Oxford.
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