21 NOVEMBER 1941, Page 12

THE LOST PEACE

SIR,—It seems singularly futile just now to contradict historical in- accuracies; but I am moved to protest against a phrase on page 469 of The Spectator, to the effect that the French were " supreme on the Continent of Europe " in 1919. Would the Germans have been formidable so soon that they could crash in the defences of Czecho- slovakia without opposition in 1938 if Frenchmen had been supreme on the Continent of Europe in 1919? Are Foch and Clemenceau for- [They are far from forgotten. It was they—surely—who tirade France supreme on the Continent of Europe iii 1919.—En., The Spectator.]