GERMANY AND WORLD OPINION [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR]
Snt,—There is a great deal to be said for the views of Mr. J. T. Dunn and Mr. H. H. Charnock that international understanding is going to suffer if we are eternally adopting a lecturing, hectoring attitude towards Germany.
There is, however, another side to the picture and since Mr. Dunn has mentioned the Black and Tans, may I, as one who has had an intimate knowledge of these gunmen, point out that black and tannery was stopped largely because foreign— and especially American—opinion would not stand for it? Now the Germans, despite their pretence to the contrary, are very sensitive to public opinion and do not bear unpopu- larity well and I suggest that The Spectator is performing admirable service in rubbing it in to them that their Government cannot bully and oppress innocent people without losing caste in the eyes of the world.
This can, I admit, be overdone, but the fairness of The Spectator over the whole political field is as well known to the Germans as it is to us, and in my humble opinion the weight of their punch on the German jaw is right to an ounce.—
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