THE WAR SURVEYED
SIR,—May a mere civilian, a man in the street, be allowed to demur to the tone of the closing parts in " Strategicus' " " The War Surveyed " in last week's Spectator? Is it not a thousand pities to suggest that grumbling against a supreme and sole commander which went so far to delay our victory in the Great War? He asks, " For what reason is the initiative left to Germany? " and suggests that we " attack the enemy bases, factories and communications immediately." A sufficient answer seems to be that we are doing very well as things are. We have got the enemy tight on land and sea and in the air. He is beleaguered, and we have only to sit down and wait for his capitulation. It is for him to waste lives in trying to break out if he can. To attack his cities with our Air Force (which we have so wisely refrained from doing) would only be to aggravate the civil population of Germany, whom, above all things, we are anxious to persuade that we bear no grudge and wish no evil, but, on the contrary, hope to persuade to accept from us a happier form of government than those under which they have suffered for so many long years.—
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