Miss Thompson Explains Menace of Hitler Regime to Burlington Audience

Mrs. Sinclair Lewis, known to the journalistic world as Dorothy Thompson, continued her personal anti-Hitler educational campaign here last night when she addressed an audience at City Hall auditorium on “The Menace of the Nazi Regime.” Mrs. Lewis, who served as a correspondent in Berlin for eight years and recently acted as correspondent for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency there, told her audience that “only through knowledge of German social and political history is it possible to understand the present upheaval.”

The great shock of losing the war, the punitive peace treaty of Versailles which produced a “nemesis of insecurity,” and the post-war inflation, she said, were fundamental causes of the Nazi revolution. “Never in the world did I think that Hitler would carry out his program,” she stated, “because it didn’t make sense. But now I realize that whether or not a thing makes sense is no test of its validity.”