20 OCTOBER 1939, Page 20

(HERR) HITLER

SIR,—We do not in England give any courtesy title to a criminal who has broken into a house and murdered its tenant and taken his property.

Why then should " Janus " ask us to give one to Hitler, who has devastated a country, caused the death of thousands of its people as well as of his own and perjured himself repeatedly?

He has forfeited for ever the right to any " Herr " before his name.—Yours faithfully,

CECIL P. LANKESTER.

Woodhill, Peaslake, nr. Guildford.