-4- understand why it strikes us as more appropriate that a Huey Long handle the struggles by Have-Nots against Haves rather than a Father Coughlin;- religion has far loftier duties than mixing in professional politics. Pardon this translation of German thought into American speech, and let us get back to the German Fuhrer. His photographers do him great injustice in two regards - they do not show enough the strengths of his upper head (above the expressive eyes) and give no hint of the engaging human being he can be when he wants to be. Never until this talk with him did I understand how he gathered the personal following that started hi Nazi movement, but now I do. When near to him, his manner of abbreviating the mustache ends seems more normanl than our beloved Charlie Chaplin's chop-off. It suits Hitler's face while speaking, because revealing all the expression around the mouth, and don't forget how he values the spoken word, which means that a speaker's facial expression must be free to supplement what he is saying. I ventured to present him with my book comparing Bismark and Mussolini, and another one on ancient German Stained Glass. How he feels about the great German and the great Italian appears from the fact that the chief adornment of his home is Bismark's portrait, and that it his private room at Nazi headquarters - the Brown House - his two portraits of Frederick the Great have only |