4 OCTOBER 1946, Page 15

ENGLISH-SPEAKING GERMANS

Sta,—I fail to see why your correspondent, Mr. R. P. Delling, should regard the fact that one-third of Janus's audience of German prisoners understood English to be a comparison of the educational systems of the two countries. As an ex-prisoner of war myself I, like many others, learned to speak and understand German fluently. Moreover, many of us acquired French and Polish through contact with people of these nationalities who were also prisoners. Considering that nearly all the German prisoners will have been in English-speaking countries for two years or more I should say that a third shows a poor adaptability of the

Germans concerned.—Yours faithfully, J. TURNBUU.. 25 Fenham Road, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 4.