The official declarations of pacific intentions on the part of Germany under the Hitler regime, and the reassuring speeches of the “propagandists who now are being sent to America and elsewhere,” may be regarded as no more than words and “scraps of paper,” Dr. Arthur O. Lovejoy, professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, said in a lecture here.
“Nothing that is known of the character and political methods of Herr Hitler encourages the belief that he is more sensitive about scraps of paper than Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg,” Dr. Lovejoy said.
This remark occurred in the course of a dissertation on “Hitlerism,” spiced with sharp phrases, in which the present National Socialist Chancellor was described as a menace to the peace of Europe.
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