21 APRIL 1939, Page 23

HERR HITLER

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—May I do something which I have been on the point of doing more than once in the last two years? It is to thank your German correspondent for his fortnightly article —one of the most consistently competent features in the whole range of contemporary journalism. His estimate of Herr Hitler, so balanced and so penetrating, in the last issue of The Spectator is, within the limits of a column, a master- piece.

The reference to the prophet of Islam reminded me of what M. Daladier is said to have remarked on his return to Paris from Munich when he was asked about his personal impression of the Fiihrer. M. Daladier threw up his hands and replied, " Mahomet, Mahomet ! "—I am, Sir, &c.,