Show Laura the Parrot I Teaches a Lesson An amusing story is told about the most fanatical nazi remaining in Germany Laura a parrot at the Munich zoo Her vocabulary is chiefly Heil Hitler re repeated repeated repeated re- re noisily and at length An antinazi zoo attendant is doing his best to break the parrot of its habit in line with the whole German tion program but so far without much success This is an amusing story but we think it has a serious side The parrot is rather typical of the nazi mentality Under the totalitarian system in Germany any parrot parrot parrot par par- rot bird or human hearing only the false nazi doctrine over and over again tended to fall into a mental rut Its It's just as Hitler said that it didn't make any difference how bi big g a lie was was' wasY Y 11 if you repeated it often enough and with sufficient vehemence people would begin to believe it He might have added that they would also parrot it And that is exactly what so many totalitarian totalitarian totalitarian to to- parrots parrots- whether of the fascist fascist fascist fas fas- cist or the communist school school k They play back like a worn well-worn phonograph record what has been frozen into their feeble mentalities Laura the nazi parrot of Munich is amusing She is also instructive |