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...Henry Villard bought The Nation in 1 88 1. Villard was a native of Bavaria; his name was Ferdinand Heinrich Gustav Hilgard, but he changed it when he quarreled with his father and fled to the U. S. A reporter, Civil War correspondent, railway promoter, financier, Villard married Gar rison's sister Fanny. He left The Nation to his son, Oswald Garrison Villard, when he died...
Oswald Garrison Villard, onetime publisher of the New York Evening Post and The Nation, is 67 years old, but when he went to Germany last October he nervily decided to answer the Nazis' "Heil Hitler!" with a "Heil Roosevelt!" Nobody gave him the chance to make such a retort. In fact, Mr. Villard reports in an 86-page booklet, Inside Germany,* just published in London, almost no one except Party members and officers in uniform now gives the "Heil Hitler!" greeting...
Despite Mr. Villard's reputation as a liberal, pacifist and anti-Nazi, German officials received him with courtesy, allowed him to go anywhere he wished, placed "cars and guides at my disposal with their compliments" and permitted him to send cables from Berlin "in which I was as critical and as free in my expression as I would have been in New York...
...reciprocated with utter frankness."You have a very poor opinion of the German people," said a Foreign Office official to him.† Answered Mr. Villard: "I have a far higher opinion of the German people than your government has. ... I am willing to believe that they can be trusted with the truth, and your government is not." When Dr. Karl Hermann Frank, Secretary of State in Bohemia-Moravia, told him that every German was behind Führer Adolf Hitler, Mr. Villard promptly disagreed, said he had met many anti-Nazi Germans...
...Villard's father, Henry Villard (originally Heinrich Hilgard), builder of the Northern Pacific Railway, came to the U. S. from Germany at 18. Mr. Villard himself was born in Wiesbaden, Germany...