SOME PLEASANT CONTRASTS
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR]
SIR,—I have been a regula- Leader of your journal for the past year or more, crid I have found that nearly every one of its viewpoints have been wrong when judged by future events ; prognostications about Abyssinia, Spain, &c., for instance.
When, therefore, I read your hostile criticism of Daladier and Bonnet this week, I came to the conclusion that future events will show that these men are doing the right thing and are in the right place.
In regard to the remarks in last week's issue by yourself
and Mr. Nicolson about the wireless, I have found that the Gennan and Italian broadcasts (not the B.B.C. variety) have been singularly true in the light of future events. On Sunday, March 19th, for instance, the Italian (on the .short wave) was especially reassuring, in view of the tendentious reports in our Press of the " ultimatum " to Rumania, King Carol's S.O.S. to King George, &c., &c. The German-English broad- casts from Cologne are particularly calm and dispassionate, and are a pleasant contrast to the chorus of hate which emanates from the British Press.
Sc' far as Mr. Nicolson is concerned, he has been gloomily predicting war for so long from the B.B.C. that very natu- rally he wants to- be thought a true prophet. This fact, coupled with his intense dislike for the German Chancellor, rules him out as an unbiassed commentator. In Lord Rothermere's book (just out), the author refers to Herr Hitler as one of the world's really great men and as a " great gentle- man," and Lord Rothennere is a man who knows both Europe and the world. I suppose it is too much to ask you to pub- lish this letter, for truth is usually unpalatable.—Yours faith-
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