The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 6, Issue 7 (February 1, 1932.)
The Shadow of Hitler
The Shadow of Hitler.
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.
A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; an hour may lay it in the dust.—Lord Byron.
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