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...Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lázaro Cárdenas. In Mexico there were great social changes, but the U.S. Government, without concealing its occasional displeasure, respected those decisions. Contributing to this harmony was an identical view of international affairs: for both Presidents, the defense of democracy against Hitler and Mussolini was primary. The circumstances today are different, but the principles on which that good relation was founded still apply: respect for the independence of Mexico, tolerance toward the necessary and almost always healthy diversity of opinions, fidelity on both sides to the interests of democracy...
...heroic portraits of Adolf Hitler that decorated German government offices during the Nazi regime were mainly slavish copies of those done by Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler's official photographer. Last week, 37 years after the German leader's death, the only known candid live portrait of the Fuhrer, carefully hidden from the Gestapo by the worried artist Klaus Richter, went on display at the Berlin Museum for the first time. Richter caught Hitler in profile almost by accident in 1941, while making sketches for a commissioned portrait of Luftwaffe Chief Hermann Goring. The German leader suddenly appeared with Benito...
Dictators' pastimes are far more striking because they often contrast with the rulers' normal behavior. Nero, no fiddler incidentally, did play the lyre and sing to vast, appreciative audiences. Hitler was a painter who started out doing postcard-size works of art and, as his career improved, worked his way up to large water-colors of wartime destruction: rubble, crumbled walls, caved-in roofs. Eventually he created his own subjects, a rare chance for an artist. According to his lackey, the featherbrained Putzi Hanfstaengl, Hitler also adored whistling. His best numbers were Harvard fight songs, which Putzi...
...however, and has played the accordion at dances. It would be a sad end to so carefree a hobby if Amin were now discovered because someone happened to overhear Lady of Spain. Still, the mind is cheered by the image of Amin on his accordion, Nero on his lyre, Hitler whistling away. Where a band like this would play offers problems, but its repertoire would surely include I've Gotta...
...Pisar sees the greatest danger in the world in the economic dislocation that is sweeping the world. "Hitler was a progeny of unemployment and inflation, social unrest, and helpless politicians who could not cope." "Pisar observes, adding. "This is the stuff of which untold Holocausts are made...