Europe’s dictators are “go-getting gangsters” and Chancellor Adolf Hitler is a “Nero,” not a “hero,” Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson, Conservative M.P., tonight told a meeting in behalf of the Earl Baldwin Fund for Refugees at Norwich.
Certain dictators, the outspoken critic of totalitarian regimes asserted, “suffer, alas, from the digestions of dragons and from public consciences made of the best elastic. Indeed, the leader of Germany today is a misleader not a hero but a Nero of his land, whose nuisance value should now be discouraged. We need only to face up to these go-getting gangsters to find out that they have hearts as well as heads of lard.”
At a Baldwin Fund meeting in London, another Conservative, R.G. Williams, told 2,000 auditors that the expulsion of Jews from the Reich would be “a great advantage for the British Empire and the British people” because of their achievements in science and industry. He denounced “small noisy elements trying to excite the population to intolerance,” referring to Fascist opposition to the Baldwin Fund.
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