THE AUTO-DA-FE [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] .
find in last. week's number of The Spectator an anti- German cartoon by Louis. Raemaekers, who, as is pointed out on the same page, " did so notable a service to the Allied' cause in the early years of the War.". I have to thank you for this timely reminder (which I fear, however, may be a little too subtle for some of your- readers) of how the
most pacific 'and reasonable of us were in those days led to believe the Germans a race of barbarians and monsters whom it was our divine mission to exterminate ; of how.
the war spirit (words which, with brilliant effrontery, M., Raemaekers brought into last week's cartoon) was fostered among us by concocted or exaggerated, hastily_ told and even more hastily belieVed, stories of German- atrocities, illustrated by this same brilliant draughtsman. Or is it possible that you publish his cartoon in good faith.
(aS he himself, no doubt, has executed it, and as he executed those others, which yet so disastrously deceived us) ? Is it not time to drop the cry of German atrocities, recalling
where it led us before, and with what motives it was launched ?
Do -we want .another war, or if there is one, do we_ want it to be due to our own inflammatory propaganda am, Trinity College, Cambridge.
[To stiginstive the war spirit which has unquestionably been
aroused in Germany is neither inflammatory nor propaganda. —En. The Spectator.] .
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