3 OCTOBER 1941, Page 12

Sta,—I have no desire to intervene in a dispute between

the National Liberals and the Independent Liberals, and I write only to correct a mis-statement of fact contained in Lady Violet Bonham Carter's letter. She states that German rearmament first became apparent in 0935. I was in Germany every year during the late nineteen-twenties and the early nineteen-thirties, and I can state from personal observation that rearmament was very much in evidence long before the time indicated by your correspondent.—Yours faithfully, Shaw Green Lane, Prestbury, Glos. J. H. FLEXMAN.