Picking a fight
From Mr David Watkins Sir: I -agree with most of what Taki has to say about A.A. Gill and the Germans, but am surprised that he still has not learned that to confuse Scotsmen like Gill with Englishmen is as great an error as to confuse Macedo- nians and Greeks (High life, 24 July).
Most Englishmen not only admire the Germans as soldiers, footballers and engi- neers (everyone does that) but rather like them as people, sharing many of their tastes, like starchy food and jokes about defecation. It is the French that the English dislike and distrust.
I remember many English veterans of the first world war, and not one who did not at some point tell me how much he and his comrades used to wish that they were fight- ing the French, with the Germans as allies.
David Watkins
Mortimer Road, Pontcanna, Cardiff
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