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the sun and it rained every day! Las Palmas is, without
exception, the most odious place I have ever struck, but I
liked Teneriffe and the old-fashioned hotels were rather
attractive after the over-upholstered luxury places of today.

On Thursday I am going off to Poland for ten
days - a long journey for so short a visit, but I am going to
spend Easter with old Countess Raczynska, Edward's mother.
She is the most charming old lady and as she is 86, I don't
feel I can put off her invitation to a later date. You will
see I am proposing to put myself on the east side of Germany.

Well now to try and send you some home news.
I won't write a treatise on foreign policy. I loathe the
Hitler regime but, frankly, in the business of Rhineland
my sympathies are with Germany. The present situation is a
coil which springs from the cardinal error of the Treaty of
Versailles - the theory the [that] however severe the peace terms
inflicted on a defeated enemy, you can keep a virile nation
indefinitely in a position of subjection. Remember
Machiavelli "you must destroy your enemy or make friends with
him". We couldn't destroy Germany; we have failed to make
friends with her.

It is interesting to note current divisions of
opinion between France and Germany; the intelligentsia are
largely on the side of France; also political Labour largely
thanks to the Franco-Soviet pact, a sinister fact which has
swung sympathy to France from the left wing. But ordinary
working-class folk who often have a much surer instinct than
those of us who have bedevilled our minds with so-called
education, are solidly anti-French and pro-German. "My Gawd,
we are not going to 'elp France again", is a widespread
sentiment. But it is a terribly difficult position for the
Government and Eden has handled it very well so far.

Apart from Eden, the Government seems to grow
more and more inept in some affairs. Their handling of the
Education Bill has been a disgrace, and Jimmy Mallon is livid
with rage about their attitude. It is no less cowardly
about the Board. The coming week will bring decisions