The visit to this country of half-a-dozen women journalists from
Germany is something of a novelty—but essentially one to be approved. The party was well chosen, coming from all three Western zones and from such centres as Berlin, Hamburg, Frank- furt, Flensburg and Freiburg. Not unnaturally they have found politics here a little confusing, being assured by the Labour politicians they met that a Labour victory was certain, and by Conservatives that Labour would be outed. Strangely enough— or perhaps not strangely—what impressed them more than any- thing else was the Palace of Westminster, even in its present state of dust-sheeted desolation. Somehow or other, and rather remarkably, they realised at once what tradition and atmosphere meant ; they had caught something Qf that in another setting at Cambridge a few days, before, but it is the Houses of Parliament that will have priority in their memories. Incidentally they were all trying to get hold of Desmond Young's book on Rommel, and scouted the idea of Rommel himself having been in any way "built up" by Goebbels. All Germans, they claimed, had spontaneously developed a warm admiration for that particular General as the best example of the simple, single-minded and efficient soldier. Still, their knowledge of him must have been derived mainly from a controlled Press.-
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