There is not much to be said for the letter
signed by German correspondents in' London, expressing the conviction that " the British public is receiving a dis- torted view of the great events in Germany." The first and obvious meaning of this is that the German correspondents in London claim to know more of what is happening in Germany than the British correspondents on the spot—a reflection on the latter hardly likely to strengthen that international freemasonry of journalism which has done 'much in the _recent past to promote international understanding. It will cer- tainly not shake public confidence in the British corres- pondents in Berlin, the accuracy of whose statements is thus impugned. These men are working under exceptional difficulties and they happen, with few if any exceptions, to be journalists in the sincerity of whose messages complete reliance can be placed. They have only succeeded in escaping official interference through the corporate loyalty which all members of the Foreign Press Association in Berlin have observed to one another, making it clear to the - authorities that though of many nationalities they stand or fall together. Now, as a result of their solid backing of their President, Mr. Edgar Mowrer, of the Chicago Daily News, whose resignation the Nazis demanded on account of a book he has recently written on Germany, the Association has been boycotted by the Government—whatever that may nran. * *
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