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...aspirations. It is no exaggeration to say that he assiduously courted Great Britain, both as representing the aristocracy and most successful of the Nordic races, and as constituting the only seriously dangerous obstacle to his own far-reaching plan of German domination in Europe. This is evident in Mein Kampf, and, in spite of what he regarded as the constant rebuffs which he received from the British side, he persisted in his endeavors up to the last moment. Geniuses are strange creatures, and Herr Hitler, among other paradoxes, is a mixture of long-headed calculation and violent and arrogant impulse...
...ending with "only losers"; about "millions of men uselessly sent to death and milliards of riches destroyed." He even made a short bow to free trade and the sanctity of the borders of minor nations. It was as though, after six years, he realized he had about exhausted Mein Kampf not only as a platform but as a point of appeal, and had been compelled to appeal to some larger interest, i.e., the interest of all the European masses, for whom he now specifically set himself up as the provider of "peace," "security," and "real economic prosperity...
...information on A. Hitler & Co.'s foreign holdings prior to its publication, having used it in checking the registration of a proposed German bond issue (TIME, Aug. 14), now withdrawn. Washington credited A. Hitler, too, with having money abroad: about $1,000,000, mostly from royalties on Mem Kampf...
Meanwhile, London's No. 1 best-seller was Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, with Mein Kampf still holding first place among war books...
...World War II trebled sales of Mein Kampf and Inside Europe, publishers facing an enigmatic future looked for clues in the publishing history of World War I. Most startling discovery was that only one book* appeared in the U. S. which even remotely prophesied a European war in 1914. Published in 1913, it sold 500 copies before war came, later sold...