Chesterton on Nazis

sir – In his criticism of G K Chesterton, Richard Ingrams (Review, August 21) overlooks the fact that, almost alone among men of note in the 1930s, Chesterton alerted people to the dangers of the Nazis.

One recalls his cartoon of Hitler bending all the arms of a cross into the form of a swastika, with the legend: “Heaven forbid I should glory but in the Cross of Christ.”

Reading Mr Ingrams’s critique reminded me of Chesterton’s line on St Francis, after Bishop Barnes said he was probably verminous: “He is … bitten by funny little creatures still”. Iain Colquhoun

Swansea