[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The articles printed recently
in the Spectator concerning the French occupation of the Ruhr must have distressed many of your readers besides myself. But what can one say about the article in your issue of August 18th? It purports to be written by "Eye-witness," but I note, without surprise, that it is unsigned. It accuses the French, by implication, of similar atrocities to those committed by the Germans in the Great War—a suggestion palpably false and most insulting to our great Ally. Whether the French policy is likely to attain its object is an open question—at least let us credit them with knowing the Germans better than we do, since they live next them. Alas that our people seem to forget so readily. A German war of revenge will not be made more, but less, certain if the French succeed.
Your correspondent asks if the men of Hants and Sussex would consent to work for a foreign invader. If that invader were German I will guarantee they would be forced so to do by methods compared to which the French severity in the Ruhr would seem but child's play.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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