27 JANUARY 1961, Page 12

SIR,--Mr. Douglas Home says that the Germans under Hitler had

only three courses open to them and that there was no fourth—to co-operate, to oppose (and take the consequences) or to compro- mise. There was in fact a fourth course, the one taken by Einstein, Freud, Gropius, Mann and many others. The Rommels and von Hassells opposed Hitler when he failed, whereas men of real integrity, years before the war, knew that Hitler was unfit to live with. Miss Quigly is absolutely right.—Yours faithfully, [May we suggest that the disputants in this con- troversy turn to Sarah Gainham's article on' pl. 99. —Editor, Spectator.]