The speculation in this column as to why H. G.
Wells should have wanted to borrow a copy of Otto Strasser's book, L'Aigle Prussien sur l'Allemagne, has elicited explanations from more than one quarter, including a copy of an article Wells wrote some time in 1942 in the Sunday Dispatch on Strasser, whom he had recently met in Bermuda. One paragraph is interesting: " Strasser's propaganda is incessant. He writes articles in our advanced journals upon the decay of morale in Germany and the necessity of Otto Strasser. This copy of L'Aigle Prussien stir l'Allemcigne before me is addressed to one of them, and it is autographed with a flourish Horiunage de Otto Strasser.'" The suggestion seems to be that Strasser once wrote for The
Spectator. I have no recollection of that, and can find no trace of it. But I agree completely with Wells's strictures on Strasser—
though not with his criticism of other people I knew and respected.
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