A WARNING TO EUROPE
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
Sta,—Thomas Mann, in A Warning to Europe, has been deploring the growth of the herd and its invasion of civilisation. Mr. St. John Mann observes that the Russian herd differs from the German, so spoiling Thomas Mann's generalisations. But all herds have a capacity for being exploited, and was it not particularly against that capacity that A Warning was issued ? Mr. St. John Mann seems to believe that Socialism " as we see it in Russia " will be the herd's safeguard against itself, and the hope of Europe ; but those who feel truth in the Warning would probably find more comfort in such Proposals as would have the problem of Distribution solved (with the consequent abolition el poverty and removal of economic causes, of war) without remurse to "group ecstasy," but rather with an increase of personal liberty and individualism. It is implicit in those Proposals that a writer's study of his dog's psychology is his own business, which he should be free to mind.—Your,
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