TELL GERMANY
Sat,—I don't write this letter as one of your usual readers. But I have read in your paper, of which I sometimes get a copy, that many of your usual readers send letters with their opinions to you and I have also seen that you published letters of German people, too. So I take the courage of sending you a letter. I must say that I am a pupil of a German secondary school in the British Sector of Berlin and that I am seventeen years of age. In the German newspapers I often found reports dealing with visits of German journalists and political leaders in Britain. But these people are older persons, and they don't tell us anything about what we are interested in ; for instance: What is the school-life in Great Britain like ? Or: What about youth-movements in Great Britain? I think it is not only necessary that older people learn democracy. In my opinion, it is even more necessary to come to a connection between the young people, for we have to recover Germany and to make good what our later generations are guilty of.
I think the earlier the German youth begins to learn the easier it will be for us to recover our country later on. just in the British Sector of Berlin it is very seldom that we hear about Great Britain, more seldom—I believe—than in the British Zone of Germany. I made many trials to get into connection with young Englishmen but up to this day without any success. Perhaps the Information Centre can make it possible to invite a. delegation of schoolboys of the secondary schools in the British sector of Berlin. I am sure these pupils would be ready to inform all other schools, and the understanding between British and German youth would be advanced very much in this way.—
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