MR. CHAMBERLAIN AND THE FRENCH
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—I have spent several weeks in France this winter, and have talked to all sorts of French people. I have not found one whose thoughts about Mr. Chamberlain even remotely resembled those of his French friend, which Mr. Harold Nicolson repeated in his article " People and Things," in your issue last week.
On the contrary, I found everywhere gratitude to Mr. Chamberlain as the one outstanding statesman who stood for peace in the eyes of all Europe. Combined with this was a belief in his capacity to work miracles for peace which seemed to an Englishman to err by exaggeration.
In these days when Mr. Chamberlain's good name is in this respect so great an asset, I hope you will let me put in this word to correct the impression which Mr. Nicolson's para- graphs might—no doubt unintentionally—give, that there are many people in France who think that the British Prime Minister is engaged in " chloroforming " either our sense of honour or our objections to Fascism.—Yours,
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