22 NOVEMBER 1940, Page 15

Sist,—You remark in your account of Mr. Chamberlain's foreign policy

that one potent explanation of the deal at Munich was that Great Britain was at that time in no condition to fight. The inference appears to be that, when eleven months later the same Government decided to fight, our condition had improved. Yet, according to a statement in the current Manchester Guardian Weekly, Hitler's lead over Britain in air strength on September 1st, 1939, was not less but much greater than at the time of Munich. If this be so there seems to be one more headache ahead for historians when they look for the compensation obtained at Munich for the surrender of the Czech "bastion."—Yours faithfully, ROBERT M. BRADBURY. South Bank, Weston, Bath.