WORN FANATIC

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 June 1941, Page 5

WORN FANATIC

HITLER SHOWING SIGNS OF STRAIN UNPLEASANT PICTURE DRAWN. BY FORMER AMERICAN AMBASSADOR. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON, June 20. In an interview with the North American Newspaper Alliance the exUnited States Ambassador to Belgium, Mr Cudahy, who has just returned from Berlin, provides. an interesting description of Hitler’s appearance and manner gained when interviewing him. He says: “Above all I was struck by the unhealthy pallor of his skin. It hadthe same look that prisoners have when the sun has been denied them for a long period of confinement. He looked dyspeptic and dog-tired, with puffed eyes.” The story goes that he is getting less than four hours’ rest a night. He gave the impression that he was utterly fatigued and of one whose nervous energy was nearly spent. His eyes are hard. He is unyielding and fanaticl without one compromising note of sympathy or kindness. His voice was utterly lacking in any sympathetic timbre and had the harsh, frayed quality which one associates with political orators at the close of a hard campaign. His 'laugh similarly is as harsh, strident and disagreeable as rasping automobile gears. He has a humourless and desperately hard face.”