THE OLD MEN OF MUNICH
SIR,—How can " Janus " say that the controversy between the " Old Men of Munich " and those who opposed them lay in the question of whether we should go to war in September, 1938, or not? Surely that is a fantastic over-simplification. Those who opposed the " policy of appeasement " did so because they believed that it was based on a complete misapprehension of -the situation. They saw this country being led towards the abyss by a group of people who seemed unable to grasp the danger in which we were living, and who attacked those who tried to point it out to them as war-mongers. One consequence of this blind- ness was the refusal to rearm on a sufficient scale. When one reads of the skies in France and Belgium being thick with Ger- man planes, what can one say of the men who are responsible
for this?—Yours faithfully, GERALD BRENAN. Bell Court, Aldbourne, Marlborough.
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