[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] should like to express
my profound gratitude. and support for the line which The Spectator has taken in these last weeks on the subject of the European crisis. The time for recrimination is past ; it behoves us to build for the future. Yet I am persuaded that this at least should be remembered. We have soiled our good name ; we have come near to destroy- ing the soul of a gallant little people who looked upon us as their friend ; we have alienated the sympathies and shattered the faith of many other friendly small nations, throwing them into the arms of a ruthless regime which they have always feared and detested, thereby, as I think, jeopardising our own safety and gravely prejudicing the future of our Empire.
" The Peace " has been praised by the Prime Minister as being " honourable," by the Primate as being " just," by the Lord' Chancellor as being " noble " and " righteous." It may well be that History will vindicate the Munich arrange- ment by reason of its expediency and by it representing the choice of the lesser of two evils. I submit that History is unlikely to subscribe to the terms of praise bestowed upoq it by our leading statesmen and prelates in their defence of such action.
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