Timely Topics

Northern Advocate, 23 March 1937, Page 4

Timely Topics

HITLER’S ACHIEVEMENT. Adolph Hitler is of humble origin and entirely self-made, writes Mr J L. Garvin in the London “Observer.” Four years ago, at the age of 43, he became Imperial Chancellor and more, He rose not only to Bismarck’;

seat, but higher. Without crown oi | purple, in a plainer suit than Crom- j well’s, this man of the people surpassed the Hohenzollerns; and ac- j quired within the Third Reich not i only mere power than the Iron j Chancellor had ever wielded, but a far more complete and authoritative sovereignty than the Emperors had possessed. At his accession he asked confidence for a first term of four years. That term has now passed. Whatever may be disputed in the record —cr disfiguring in the sight of British eyes—the main work built up is massive and towering. It stands square to all winds. No man, in the j same short period, ever has restored L the strength and spirit of a great peo- | pie by a more transforming and for- i midable change. ! ci g m m j ■ Words Of Wisdom t J, Know the vahie of time. Never putl'. off till tomorrow what you can do ! today. —The Earl of Chesterfield. : • ® -bs i» ■ « |: Tale Of The Day. ■ “I say, waiter, there’s an ant in my soup.” “Surely not, sir; maybe it’s one of ( those vitamin bees you hear so much about.”