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HITLER-Konrad Heiden-Knopf ($3). HITLER-Rudolf Olden-Covici, Friede...
Neither Author Heiden nor Author Olden had much to say that was complimentary. What they did say was very similar. Author Olden foamed a little more, at times threatened to run over; both agreed on the main facts of their "hero's" career. They took a lingering look at the delicious possibility that anti-Semitic Hitler might have Jewish blood in him, regretfully dismissed it. But Author Olden contended that Hitler might as justly have called himself Schicklgruber-which he points out would not have sounded so well with "Heil!" Both agree that Hitler is evasive and untrustworthy about...
...concealing their dislike, try to give the devil his due. Heiden: "Everything that Hitler says in his book about propaganda is masterly. . . . For a few hour? [at a time] he is really a remarkable schoolbook hero: cynical as Frederick the Great, brutal as Napoleon, kindly as the Emperor Joseph." Olden: "If greatness can exist . . . in demagogy, then Hitler is a great man. . . . Hitler's way of speaking is an elemental phenomenon, one of Nature's marvels...
...whole they disapprove of him. Heiden: "Only the ruin of all made him ruler over all." Olden: "He is a man who has remained in the child-stage, in the barbaric state of the nursery...
...Chicago, George William Cardinal Mundelein directed his priests to give a course in marriage at low mass on Sundays during the ecclesiastical year which opened with the beginning of Advent last week. In a letter read from all Catholic pulpits Chicago's Archbishop said: "Marriage in olden days was a rather simple procedure. . . . How our present-day civilization and its laws have shattered these ideals! If any of you had dealt with this subject as long (15 years) and as intimately in thousands of individual cases, as patiently and sympathetically as I have tried to do, you would conclude...