HITLER’S FEMALE FRIENDS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 296, 13 November 1937, Page 9

HITLER’S FEMALE FRIENDS.

THE MITFORD SISTERS. MR WARD PRICE’S COMMENTS. LONDON, Oct. 29. “Herr Hitler is not a woman-hater,’ says Mr G. Ward Price, in Ins book, ‘ I Know These Dictators.” Mr Ward Price, as a special correspondent of the Daily Mail, really does know Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini. and many of his interviews with them have been cabled to the Dominions. He writes: “Herr Hitler shows a strong predilection for feminine society, and a marked appreciation of good looks, hut unless a woman is also intelligent, lid avoids engaging her in conversation. , “Curiously,” he states, “two of las closet friends are the daughters of Lord Redesdale—Hon. Mrs Diana Gumnes3 and Hon. Unitv Freeman-Mitford. Herr Hitler noticed Unity at a small restaurant in Munich and sent his adjutant to invite her to join his party. “No other foreigners,” he continues, “and not many Germans, are so closely in the confidence of Herr Hitler as the Mitford sisters. Platonic relations with the other sex may well represent the full extent of Herr Hitjer’s taste for feminine companionship.” Mr Price expresses the opinion that, unwilling though f-'ignor Mussolini and Herr Hitler may be to incur tlie risks of war. they would not recoil as an alternative to a glaring reverse m foreign affairs. Therefore, he advocates closer and more confidential iel at ions with them by other Governments. Mr John Gunther, in his book, “Inside Europe,” writes: “Hitler thinks of women as housewives and mothers orpotential mothers, to provide sons for the battlefield—other people s sons ‘The life of our people must be freed from the asphyxiating perfume of modern eroticism.’ he says in Ivanipf,’ his autobiography. His per-:, sonal life embodies this precept to the fullest. He is not a woman-hater, but he avoids and evades woman. His manners arc those of tlie wary chevalier, given to Juand-kissing —and nothing else. His women are attracted to him, but they have given up the chase. . . Occasionally young English or American girls, ardent Aryans, come to see him, and sometimes they are received. But Hitler does little but harangue them. At the top of his voice he talks of politics, and, after a time, subsides, as, if limp and exhausted.”