THE WAR SURVEYED
Sm,—France must bear the sole responsibility of her surrender. Let us use her—if we must—as " a warning and an example," to quote one of your correspondents, but is it fair—or wise—to make her bear alone the full weight of all the tragic mistakes and errors that preceded her surrender? When " Strategic-us," explaining that " France was not prepared either materially or mentally " for the war, adds: " It seems impossible to interpret the abortive operations which Gamelin made in September to support the Poles . . . as other than defeatist in inspiration," does " Strategicus " remember that Gamelin acted— so we were told at the time—with the full agreement of the allied war councils—and was only translating into military action or inaction the general policy not of the French war cabinet alone but of the
allied war cabinets?—Yours, &c., LUCIE H. GRIFFITH. Durnsford House, Mildenhall, Marlborough.
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