-6- This long audience finished on the high note that began it- Bismarck and his portrait that dominate's Hitler's home. Nothing was greater in Bismarck's character than his grasp of foreign psychology, and his farseeing handling thereof. When I mentioned meeting Colonel Beck, now Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, when he, as a private citizen, lunched at my Embassy in Turkey, the Reichskanzler spoke in high tones of how loyally both Colonel Beck and his Berlin representative have collaborated in bringing about the present agreeable relations between the two countries. But he modestly said nothing of what a striking the former state of affairs when the Dantzig Corridor was almost "a fighting word" in Germany. It took both the forseeing diplo- macy of the Fuhrer, plus his hold on the German people to cause years. But Hitler achieved it, and he is the only German since Bismarck who could have effected what the writer condiders a high-water mark of recent European statesmanship. Revealing of the man's personality as was this long interview, even better was to follow. A nation's political leader must be seen in action, if a foreigner hopes to understand his power over his people. How do they react when he speaks to them? The reader can imagine my satisfaction when the Fuhrer invited me to come as his guest to Nuremberg September 10th to hear him address the great Nazi rally there, - and better still to watch the effect upon them of his spoken word. G.H. Sherrill |