HITLER'S FRIENDS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22928, 5 January 1938, Page 4

HITLER'S FRIENDS

TWO ENGLISH SISTERS NORDIC TYBE OF BEAUTY It is interesting to read that two of Adolph Hitler's close friends are Englishwomen. They aro the daughters of Lord Redesdale—the Hon. Mrs. Diana Guinness and her younger sister, the Hon. Unity Freeman-Mitford. They have been seen at recent Na«i ceremonies wearing swastika badges conferred on them by Hitler himself. "it was the younger sister," Mr. Ward Price tells us, "who first made Hitler's acquaintance. In 1934 she was attending art classes in Munich and used to lunch at a little restaurant which is one of Hitler's regular resorts Vvhen staying at his Munich flat. No one could sit long in the same room ns Miss Unity Freeman-Mitford without noticing her. Her golden hair, fair skin, and blue eyes attain the highest standards of that Nordic beauty which Germans especially admire. It was natural that Hitler should eventually inquire who this attractive woman might be. On hearing that she was an English student, he sent his burly adjutant, Herr Bruckner, to convey the Chancellor's compliments and inquire whether she spoke German. If so, would she do him the honour to take coffee with his party? "No other foreigners, and not many Germans, are so closely in the confidence of Adolf Hitler, and as the sisters spend much time in Germany they are in frequent touch with him. By the natural charm of their good breeding and sooial training they have done much to enlarge Hitler's angle of vision upon Britain' and , the British character." ' '