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Smith is sure that Hitler, "the phenomenal Cinderella-boy from Braunau, has had a swell time." But, because of the failure in Russia, the Home Front's decline, and the growing disunity in the nation, "it would appear to be getting on toward midnight. Even with his expertness at it, it is highly unlikely that he can turn this particular clock back...
...Braunau am Inn there was born a man of humble, obscure parents, who in his time shook Germany and the world to their foundations, who already today belongs to the greatest of all times and who one day . . . will be the greatest of the great. He brought Germany to reason and thereby made us happy. We are convinced he will bring Europe and the world to reason and thereby make Europe and the world happy...
...events which almost nobody noticed in the midst of all these were the birth in Braunau, Austria, of a boy-child and within a year the entrance into Parliament of a young Welshman-the son of a teacher in Pwllheli, the husband of a woman from Mynyddednyfed. The young parliamentarian burned with liberal zeal to make the capitalistic society of his day a better place to live in; in the last six years the Austrian has undermined the foundations of that society. Last week, within 48 hours of each other, Adolf Hitler celebrated his 50th birthday and David Lloyd George...
Adolf Hitler paused briefly to inspect the three-story building in one flat of which he was born at Braunau on the River Inn. A janitor of a school once attended by Hitler as a boy fired one shot, not at Hitler who was nowhere near, but over the heads of some Storm Troops. They took his gun, and flogged him. The mothers of three babies just born at Vienna were announced to have named each "Adolf." As Adolf approached the provincial capital at Linz, Austrian crowds were cheering everyone they could think of, even bellowing "Hell Ward Price!" since...
...close shaves are well known to connoisseurs of meteoritics. In 1827 a man was injured by a fall at Mhow, India. In 1836 cattle were reported killed by a meteoric shower in Brazil. In 1847 two iron meteorites totaling 85 Ib. plunged through the roof of a room in Braunau, Bohemia where three children were sleeping. In 1917 a 150-lb. stone fell within the town limits of Colby, Wis. In 1924 a 14- Ib. stone hit a Colorado highway a few feet behind a funeral procession. Last year in France a burning farmhouse in which three persons perished...