Such is the innate spirit of self-effacement which pervades all
departments of this office that few of the kind things sometimes said about us (this does, surprisingly enough, occasionally happen) are ever accorded the publicity of print. But some comments made not to this journal, but about it, to someone who has been sending copies to a student in Germany do, more than most, invite brief quotation.
" I like the Spectator very much," Writes the student in question. " Its judgement seems to me to be fairly moderate and one feels the desire to judge just without too much polemic charging. And in addition to that the staff seems to be rather good informed about things happening in Germany and I realised that they are understanding the way of thinking in our country very good. . . . Who has realised in your country that we ' hate the whole idea of military service with a hatred incomprehensible to those who have never served under German officers and German N.C.O.s ? ' " Such occasional indications that the staff is not labouring quite in vain cheers the staff up considerably.
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