AFTER HITLERISM
SIR,—In reply to Lord Ponsonby, may I say that he is not quite accurate in saying that my article pointed to Germany as a menace because she has fought four wars in less than a hundred years? The real menace, as I pointed out, lies in Germany's political immaturity, of which one of the con- sequences has been the four wars mentioned. I believe this is a valid distinction because every one of those four wars has had the character of civil war between different inheritors of exactly the same European tradition. We are engaged on what is essentially a civil war today. Thus the various colonial wars which Lord Ponsonby enumerates do not seem to affect the argument, which is not to say that I want to justify them or our past conduct in embarking on them. The perpetual threat to peace in Europe which is a direct consequence of Germany's political immaturity is the fundamental problem of today, as it has been for the last fifty years or more. It is not relevant to a discussion of that problem to point out that we fought the Zulus in 1879 and the Abyssinians in
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