“Of our great star orators,” Aldous Huxley wrote yesterday in the New York American, “the one whose success I can least understand is Hitler.”
“His tone,” the British author said, “is that of an angry drill sergeant, and the harsh sound of his voice is, to my ears at least, most unattractive.
“To his great German audiences, however, he seems to be irresistible.”
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