MONSTER OR HERO?

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22717, 1 November 1935, Page 9

MONSTER OR HERO?

ARTICLE ON, HERR HITLER A SHARP PROTEST LODGED BERLIN, October 31. (Received Nov. 1, at 1 a.m.) The German Ambassador in London has been instructed to protest sharply against Mr Winston Churchill's article in the Strand Magazine containing observations insulting to Herr Hitler and deeply offending the German Government. The article is described as a malicious attack on Nazism and its leader that could hardly be surpassed. The magazine has been banned in Germany indefinitely. The article is entitled " The Truth About Herr Hitler," and it included the following:—" History is replete with examples of men who have risen to power by stern, grim, wicked, even frightful methods, but who have nevertheless been regarded as great figures whose lives have enriched mankind. So may it be with Herr Hitler. We cannot tell whether Herr Hitler will be a man who will let loose on the world another war in which civilisation will irretrievably succumb, or whether he will go down in history as the man who restored the honour of the Germaan nation and brought it back, helpful and strong, to the European family circle. It is on this mystery of the future that history will pronounce Herr Hitler either a monster or a hero."