SIR,—As a keen student of all available British Press for
two and a-half years behind barbed wire, I can underline most of everything what Dorothy F. Buxton wrote. Will you kindly give me the permission to correct and add some points your readers will perhaps be interested in and therefore have a better understanding of our growing animosity. Mrs. Buxton mentions that the screening interview is often an affair of only three to five minutes. That must be already a " highbrow " prisoner. The average time for an ordinary prisoner is mostly not more than three to five seconds, sometimes a glance over the rim of the glasses with a drawling O.K. Such O.K. may have the meaning of the category A, B or C.
If the cause of democracy has, in fact, suffeied a very serious decline, I can't agree to the statement that Wilton Park and one or two other training centres continue to achieve fine results. Your readers will be astonished to learn, for instance, about an article in Die Bruecke, the newspaper of the students of Wilton Park. We consider the paper as a London-influenced one as it is British censored. There we read in the copy of the 5. Course, October, 1946, p. 23, Germany and the World Market, the proposal to being the German industry into fusion with Anglo- American trusts and concerns. The German investment would be the supply of "cheap, skilled" labour. Indeed astonishing in a country with a Socialist Government. One can't help feeling that the many humani- tarians on this island are only a very practical camouflage against the eyes of the world. Behind this camouflage the new Germany is pressed in a form that represents everything save a sound Socialism. Many here still care for the Western .form of democracy, but if I recollect the development of the past 18 months, I don't believe it will last much kmger. What we need is not pretending democracy, but acting.—I am, Sir, yours faithfully and, for obvious reasons of screening, anonymous, GERMAN P.O.W. •
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