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Cynic and Idealist “The problem with which Europe is confronted by the personality of the author of ‘Mein Kampf’ is that of a strange alliance between cynicism and idealism. The lack of scruple, which lie not merely manifest's, but parades, reaches the limit, his only moral touchstone for word or deed is whether it serves its purpose. Nothing is wrong if it succeeds. Yet behind his book’s savagery and its cunning there is a blend of intense idealism and crabbed argument that may often remind the reader (though Herr Hitler would abhor the comparison) of St. Paul. In an age of moral relaxation and hedonistic self-seeking he stood out against the German background as the unabashed apostle of effort, duty, self-sacrifice, the idealistic subordination of individual interests to those of the community; and he won his power on that appeal.” —Mr R. C. K. Ensor, m an Oxford pamphlet, Mein Kampf.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20916, 22 September 1939, Page 6
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