[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR, — I venture to question
whether the seizure of Czecho- Slovakia was as unpremeditated as suggested in " A Specta- tor's Notebook." Father Reichenberger, the leader of the Sudeten Christian Democrats, addressing a meeting of the People and Freedom Group on March 14th, informed us that for some time past the greeting exchanged between Germans in Prague was : " Heil Hitler for March 16th! " We have also had a first-hand account, from a British visitor to one of the garrison towns of Eastern Germany, of how in the middle of the night of March 12th he was surprised to see the troops filing out of their barracks and setting off on the road towards the Czech frontier, moving with a silence in com- plete contrast to the usual assertiveness of a German army on the march, and which suggested special precautions, in- cluding the issue of silent-soled boots, to ensure secrecy for some forthcoming operation.
B. BARCLAY CARTER.
35 Campden Street, W. 8.
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