GERMANY: Liberal Among Nazis

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...

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