<P>' The Funeral of British Honour' </P> <P> To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian </P> <P> The flowers piled before 10, Downing Street are very fitting for the funeral of British honour and, it may be, of the British Empire . For sheer degradation the frenzies of last Friday beat even the night of Mafeking . </P> <P> I appreciate the Prime Minister's love of peace . I know the horrors of war--a great deal better than he can . But when he returns from saving our skins from a blackmailer at the price of other people's flesh, and waves, laughing with glee, a piece of paper with Herr Hitler's name on it, if it were not ghastly, it would be grotesque . No doubt he has never read Mein Kampf in German . But to forget, so utterly, the Reichstag fire, and the occupation of the Rhineland, and 30 June 1934, and the fall of Austria! We have lost the courage to see things as they are . And yet Herr Hitler has kindly put down for us in black and white that programme he is so faithfully carrying out . (For he keeps his threats, though not his promises .) Alliance with Italy and England; the annihilation of France; the conquest for the German plough of the Ukraine; a Reich of 250,000,000 . And then? </P>

Poland was given to germany as a form of appeasement