In publishing the interview with Dr. Tenney, we rather feared that his reference to the deportation of Germans would bring forth the sort of letter that Mr. Reiber contributes to-day; although there was just the hope that the mere fact that we did publish Dr. Tenney's remarks in this connexion would have _induced silence on the part of German readers. Would not Myr. Reiber be better advised to bury a hatchet, the reverse of which, if we chose to use it, has an edge so very much sharper than the one he employs? We are not going to use that edge; we forbear from making the very obvious rejoinder which his letter so easily evokes; and we shall even leave uncorrected his highly-coloured picture of the deportation as his own image ination depicts it. Because nothing whatever is to be gained by. perpetuating these bitter memories. If Mr. Reiber feels strongly about the deportations, he might remember that there are millions of Bri®sh people who find it extremely difficult to think of his countrymen as they used to think, and are nevertheless trying to forget the animosities of the war, not because they were not well founded at the time, but because the war is over and it is contrary to the spirit of decency to harbour a grudge.
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