THE REVOLVER REPUBLIC
[To the Editor of the SrEerAtort.] SIR,—Owing to absence abroad, I have only just seen your sympathetic notice of my book, The Revolver Republic, in your issue of November 1st, but I trust you will permit a belated explanation. Your reviewer thinks I "might have been judicial enough to mention the underlying motive—. fear" for the French Rhineland policy. If he will turn to page 14 of the book he will read : "Behind the desire of the French masses to see Germany utterly destroyed as a power in Europe and her population diminished by every possible means was much natural fear." Surely this meets this point.
As to the suggestion that the history of what was behind the occupation which ended this summer should be forgotten in the interests of peace, I would urge that these interests can never be served by slurring over the past. If we are to understand the forces making for a fresh conflict in Europe to-day, we cannot advance by adopting an ostrich-policy towards lessons of recent history. It was in an endeavour to throw light on dark places and to reveal lurking perils that The Revolver Republic was written.—! am, Sir, &c.,
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