27 JULY 1944, Page 12

40, Wodeland Avenue, Guildford, Surrey. FREDERICK WILLIS. SIR, —Men who know

Germany like Mr. Harold Nicolson, Sir Eric Phipps and Lor‘il Vansittart try to tell us in their different ways what is wrong with the majority of Germans. Someone always immediately side- tracks the main issue by writing to complain of some fancied slight on that ineffectual (and possibly mythical) minority, the good Germans. Our foreign policy is likely to be weak enough.after the war without responsible persons indulging in precious arguments about whether these good Germans are or are not moral cowards. Hitler was, and probably still is, the most popular man there has ever been in Germany. That is what we should talk about and think about, and that means keeping our eyes firmly fixed on the majority of Germans.—Yours faithfully,