By the aid of the talking picture, the world's leaders are becoming known at the outermost corners of the world. You almost see them in the flesh—Hoover, Mac-Donald, Hindenberg, Laval, Mussolini. In the German pictures is beginning to appear another figure—Hitler. Authorities differ as to his natural stature. Some of the French critics say he is a paper despot whom Germany parades as a threat to France. “Compromise with Bruening, lest you find a worse customer in Hitler,” Germany is supposed to be saying to France; and, the French critics declare it is all bluff. But there are other authorities who hold that Hitler and his German brand of Fascism constitute a real force; no one need be in doubt on that point, they say, and Bruening isn't. If Hitler got a chance to begin tearing up the Versailles Treaty, a lot of things could happen. Sir Robert Borden says that the next six months are the most critical in history.