TERRS OF HITLER'S LIFE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 181, 3 July 1940, Page 3

TERRS OF HITLER'S LIFE

; HOROSCOPE READING SOME COMPARISONS Hitler was fifty-one recently. He 1 came to power at the age of. fortyfour. and he lias held office for seven years. Let us see how his record compares with other dictators. They are not a long-lived race on the whole, and their term? of office does not average out to more than about eleven years. Napoleon lasted sixteen years. He won power when he was thirty. He lost it when he was forty-six. He lingered on in exile until his dealt 1) at the age of fifty-one. Lenin was dictator of Russia for only seven years, the same period as Hitler has now held office. He gained power at forty-seven and died at fifty-four. Stalin has held office for a long period as dictators' careers go—sixteen years. He came to power at forty-four, and now is sixty. Mussolini has resigned one year longer than Stalin, seventeen years. He became a dictator at thirty-nine. Franco began his struggle for power in Spain four years ago at forty-four. Britain's own dictator, Cromwell was in office only seven years. Julius Caesar gained power at forty-one, and maintained it seventeen years. The longest reign of a dictator is possibly that of Kemal Ataturk. He held power for twenty years. Even then he was only sixty when he died. Hitler enjoys good health at present. His only trouble is insomnia; he sleeps four or five hours a night. One of the only two illnesses Hit' ler has been known to suffer from was probably bi ought on by too much shouting. That was a polypus on his right vocal cord, which was sscretly removed in 193.5. The doctor who did it told doctors in New York afterwards that H'itle? had been afraid it was cancer. The other illness was a very bad toothache in 1934, ============