The "North-China Daily News" has recently seen a letter written from New York to an Austrian friend in Shanghai by an Austrian medical man who not long since arrived in the United States after spending some years in England. He writes, in part as follows (translation):
"With regard to England and America, the feeling here is entirely pro-British, but this has only been so since the' elections. You know of course, that I have always liked the English and now, since I have known them more closely, I have become their admirer. If it is given to any people to be great and to conquer the Germans, then these are they. Only they are slow to awaken and very heavy; their organization is not efficient, but they are tonations and fear is a word they do not know.
"They do not like war; as an English soldier said to me, "I am not keen on ít, but I am not afraid of it" They fight because they must, but they will not yield. It was only after Dunkirk that the danger under which they lie became clear to them, and then only partly so, for they will never grasp the whole extent of the Nazi peril.
"Each reverse only makes these people the more determined to win. They are different from the continental peoples and, I believe, a terruble foe for Hitler. The letters which I receive from England, from Englishmen, are, in their unpretentiousness and resolution, wonderful documents. The fate of all peoples is being fought out over there, and I believe the struggle is in, safe ands...
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.