Sta,—I have read your articles regarding the Youth Rally in
Berlin with the deepest interest.
As a result of a visit to Germany last January, I recently had a party of German boys over here on a visit. The letters which I have received from them regarding the Festival in Berlin are illuminating. This is a typical quotation: "The F.D.J. is the big danger which threatens our people. The Soviets are not popular with the older Germans and they also do not want to become it, but they try to become friends with the younger people and they have success. The S.R.P. is not such a big danger as the F.D.J. I often think back to England and I am wonder- ing about your political cleverness, we have not enough."
Surely it should be possible fbr us to present to the young people of Germany an ideal of a Christian democracy which will have a wider appeal and a more apparent relation to reality than that so far we
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