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10, HERNE HILL MANSIONS, S.E.
Dear Mr. Buchan. I have just read your 2nd. vol of the History of the War. - Thank you for Rosebery's preface. - It is good to see you so clear of the "call = 'em - Huns" spirit, so conscious that war is a bloody & evil thing.
(Your chapters xvi & xvii I mean.)
- It is a true thing that it is more often possible to
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find a war-scared, hysterical person who thinks he (or she) has seen an unnameable outrage than it is to find a ditto.ditto. soldier who has done that which is alleged, - imagined, - dreamt.
...Both are possible; both happen - in war-time.
...What you have omitted (while very properly omitting the sworn evidence of people who have - as they think - seen, or endured, unspeakable things) is - The official printed doc= uments which prove, in the
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German army's own words, that they came west quite sure that there would be no inquests afterwards, that their might was right, that the enemy was to be crushed regardless of all laws of war or peace.
...Look at your dossier; you have the German printed & signed proofs that in Aug. & Sep. the army of victory had no
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idea that, even in America, (least of all in England) it could ever be held account= able.
Your notes excuse much (any history [underlined] must) - do you know any history with such a record of printed [underlined] authorised [underlined] instructions to act the brutal as was in the German invasion of Belgium & N. France?
Yours faithfully
V. Canonbury
