NAZI LEADERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 April 1942, Page 4

NAZI LEADERS

HITLER AS MALIGNANT DISEASE. Mr Cudahy, formerly United States Ambassador to Belgium, has been telling the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Hitler “looks as if he' had a malignant disease.” No special marks for percipienCe need be awarded to Mr Cudahy for that discovery. The exhibit in question is a malignant disease. Nothing more malignant than just being Adolf Hitler could be found in any dictionary of pathology. Mr Cudahy does not seem to have had any views about the morbidity of Ribbentrop, whom he also encountered. Ribbentrop told him that the entry of the United States into the war “would mean a war of hemispheres and it would go on indefinitely and probably destroy the world.” It would be much more likely to destroy the Nazis, and that, of course, is what the usually maladroit Ribbentrop managed to convey SO' clearly that it is doubtful whether anyone could misinterpret the real meaning at the back of his It was always a short, sharp war that the Nazis wanted; thereafter they would destroy the world, or everything that makes it worth living in for decent people, at their leisiite; That programme has been suffering from arrested development, and the German Foreign Minister’s hot very brilliant attempt to frighten Mr Cudahy shows how the nightmare of collapse also enters into the picture. “Manchester Guardian.”