MONSTER OR HERO?

Taranaki Daily News, 1 November 1935, Page 5

MONSTER OR HERO?

HERR HITLER A MYSTERY ARTICLE BY CHURCHILL SHARP GERMAN PROTEST DEEP OFFENCE CAUSED By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 11 p.m. Berlin, Oct. 31. The German Ambassador at London has been instructed to make a sharp protest against an article by Mr. Winston Churchill in the Strand Magazine containing observations insulting to Herr Hitler which have deeply offended the German Government. The article is described as a malicious attack on Nazism aftd on its leader that could hardly be surpassed. The magazine has been banned in Germany indefinitely. The article entitled, “The Truth About Hitler.” “History,” it says, "is replete with examples of men who have risen to power by stem, grim, wicked and even frightful methods, but who have nevertheless been regai c ■ as great figures and whose lives have enriched mankind. So may it be with Herr Hitler. “We cannot tell whether Herr Hitler will be the 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 German nation and brought it back, helpful and strong, to the European family circle. It is on this mystery ox the future that history will pronounce Herr Hitler either a monster or a hero.”