GERMANY TODAY
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I comment on Mr. J. H. Flaxman's letter in your issue of June 15th ? I have just returned from two months' extensive tour through Northern Germany, Danzig and East Prussia, and had exceptional opportunities of seeing and hearing nearly all the leaders and of meeting a very large number of people in all walks of life. I would have said unhesitatingly that none of the leaders known by name abroad has the confidence of the rank and file of the German people with the single exception of Herr Hitler, who is ahnost worshipped as an idealist and as an absolutely honour. able man.
I have known Germany intimately for thirty-three years, and whilst there is this artificial religious intolerance of which the mass of the people are getting rather tired, there is no race hatred of any nation as there used to be before the War—not even of France ; the country is exhausted, anxious for the future and disheartened at the present time.
I did hear, however, much regret expressed that sections of the British Press so seldom gave any prominence to the solid achievements- of the National Socialist Party in the face of ever-increasing difficulties, whilst the excesses of a revolution received publicity out of all proportion to the ae':ual facts. Officials and private individuals without exception were amongst the most genuinely courteous and kindly of any people in Europe, and no reasonable enquiry was resented and every assistance given to enable one to form one's own judgement. Of course one must not believe all that one is told by the Press Bureau in Berlin.—I
Sir, &c., T. V. SCE-DA:WORE. Royal Automobile Club, S.W. 1.
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