Foreign News: Bludgeons & Cookies

Some orations are of definite greatness, and the speech of Adolf Hitler to the German Reichstag last week was in that class. It has always been Herr Hitler's technique, ever since his Nazi Party set out to thrash every other German party, to employ both the heavy Teuton bludgeon and the sweet Teuton sugar-cookie. By being intermittently sweet to the people he intermittently slugged, the Realmleader has made himself what he is today. Last week he asked Germans to vote overwhelmingly once more, on March 29, that they are satisfied.

Der Führer's slugging...

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