GERMAN PROPAGANDA IN SWEDEN SIR,—I have read with great interest
the article on " German Propaganda in Sweden " by a Special Correspondent, which appeared in your issue of March 1st. It contains, however, one or two remarks which seem to be founded on a mistake.
It is stated in the article that the Swedish Ministry of Education has as adviser in German a Dr. Kappner, who is at the same time " a Secretary of the German Legation in Stockholm" (cf. the two last paragraphs on page 281). If this were true it would certainly be rather surprising, but I am able to state that Dr. Kappner has had no connexion whatever with the Swedish Government or the Swedish educational authorities since the outbreak of war. He was, however, at certain periods before the war employed by the Board of Education as an assistant linguistic expert on tech- nical matters in connexion with the teaching of the German language, but this was discontinued immediately on the out- break of war. He has since been attached to the German Legation.—Yours faithfully,
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