Even Nazi Yorkville showed yesterday that it is getting tired of Hitler’s in-the-bag elections.
The district really did not awaken until headlines in the early editions of the morning papers startled the section into an unpleasant awareness of the waning glory of the Fuehrer in the fatherland.
No radio facilities broadcast the election returns. Consequently the little knots of persons that usually jam Yorkville streets when Hitler speaks or when he has himself “elected” did not turn out. There were no rallies in any of the usual meeting places of the Nazis.
Casual conversation during the afternoon did not concern itself with the German plebiscite. The talk overheard in Yorkville cafes seldom turned to political subjects, and when it did there appeared to be little doubt in the speakers’ minds that Hitler would meet with no opposition.
The spirit of Nazi Yorkville appeared to conform pretty much with the editorial anticipations of the Deutsche Zeitung, local Nazi organ. In a typical made-to-order
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