" A STUDY IN DIPLOMACY."
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Snt,—In your very considerate review of my Old Diplomacy and New last week, the writer closed with the suggestion that I should " cut out " my " statement " in regard to the Putumayo atrocities of 1912. I do not state, nor yet in- sinuate, that no atrocities were committed. I merely suggest that Casement, afterwards proved to be a German agent, saw in those atrocities an opportunity to make trouble between ourselves and the United States. This suggestion rests on the considered opinion of Sir William Haggard, for many years British Minister in Rio de Janeiro and well acquainted with Casement. His views were briefly put in a letter to the Times, November 18th, 1921. I am grateful to your reviewer for a most courteous article, but I do not see which of my statements he can justly bid me " cut out."—I am,
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