Show WW hitler in mental decline close observers say yes reliable reports indicate fuehrer subject to uncontrolled emotions german physician believes he will have mental explosion by analyst anal and commentator service union trust building washington D C where is hitler that question cant be answered with any certainty at this writing and nobody seems to care for more than a month the communications from the german high command have not borne the Fuehr ers signature the anniversaries ot of two of the great events in nazi history have come and gone the celebrations were held with very little display in comparison with other years and entirely without appearance of the no I 1 nazi himself hitler has made no public appearance for months lt it is true that communications supposedly from the fuehrer have been made public but always through a second party notably the speech on the anniversary of the founding of the national socialist party the set excuse is that hitler is with his troops in the russian front but at the rate that front is moving these days it is doubtful if he is very near it it is quite pos sible that he is elsewhere or even nowhere but the interesting thing is is that this man who has managed to turn the world upside down does not seem at all essential to the great political and military machine he has built up it may be functioning without him and this would seem to indicate that if he is not dead but should suddenly die it make much difference some time ago a report received from underground sources was received in london it said that hitler either has been given an ultimatum by his generals who pointed out hi his s military blunders or he is suffering from one of his hysterical fits and is in ill health as a result of his russian reverses recent developments what bout about these alts they are no fiction but well authenticated events before several witnesses he has frequently burst into tears and in other ways given vent to utterly uncontrolled empt emotions ions but these fits are of less importance than certain other likewise well dated but not widely known developments which have taken place within the last year or two there are several stories which I 1 heard aheard from the lips of a man who has closely watched hillers Hit lers career from its earliest beginning the man is fred a former colleague of mine in fact I 1 was instrumental in having him sent to berlin as correspondent for the consolidated soli dated press just about the time hitler was beginning his political career long before anybody else took hitler seriously wrote to me this man is some day going to be the bull in Eu ropes china shop who is now in washington told me the following story which he also repeats in his excellent book this Is the enemy As you know hitler was always a teetotaler ile he never drank anything t ing but some very weak beer especially ally brewed for him and lie he only took sips of this pale beverage recently his habits changed persons who visited him at his headquarters early in tile the winter told me says that he was becoming grave and irritable and that it was not uncommon for him on a cold night to drink three or four glasses of grog ile he also took occasional drinks of a bavarian liquor called enzian which is not unlike gin now is an exceedingly reliable reporter and when he says the fuehrer finished three grogs drogs in an evening I 1 believe it also I 1 believe that a man unused to taking alcohol must have been higher than berchtesgaden when he went to bed also said there is a german physician of international repute who believes that some day hitler will have a brain disturbance of a serious nature this physician has treated hitler since 1921 and knows his physical condition as well as his personal life it is his opinion that hitler is s an outstanding example of a half trained half educated person with a phenomenal talent for absorbing and coordinating co information ana an detail gleaned from other sources this attention to detail and pattern he says is obvious in hillers Hit lers drawings in his speeches his military campaigns it is a phe mental power but some day it is going to explode suicide the end without revealing the source I 1 have heard the opinion expressed by a man who has seen and met with hitler many times and is exceedingly familiar with his life that it is quite possible that a mental decline has started which he believes may end in suicide on my own score I 1 may say that when I 1 heard hitler deliver his famous speech at the start of the war in 1939 in which he said that he was going to the front and would lead germany to victory that he would not take off his uniform until this had been achieved and in the next breath named his successors I 1 thought he was preparing for suicide I 1 doubt if he is now dead he may not even be ill III but the thing is is there has been no report of any public appearance for a long time that of course is hearsay evidence or long distance diagnosis but what reports comes from firsthand first hand authority so hitler may already be in a padded cell and nobody seems to carel care I 1 fourth term does want it will the president run tor for a fourth term A number of cross currents ara are i definitely in motion some directly moving toward an attempt to draft mr roosevelt as candidate in 44 some which at present seem to be carrying him in the opposite direction one thing that many people fall fail to realize is the fact that when the precedent against a man serving in I 1 the white house for more than two terms was broken the first olive was out of the bottle and the chief obstacle to a fourth term was removed As has been pointed out the american people never before wanted a man for a third term candidate although twice before candidates would have made the attempt grant and theodore roosevelt when the first whispers for a pos sible third term for franklin ro roosevelt 0 se were heard I 1 talked to a seasoned political observer he said the president want to run again but he will be persuaded to by his friends I 1 make hold bold to state at this juncture that exactly the same statement can be made today with one modification the president want to run nin for a fourth term but his friends are trying to persuade him to I 1 feel sure that the president does not want to run again I 1 do believe he passionately desires to preside at the peace table but some of his friends have a different view As joseph secretary to pro president si wilson once remarked about abou t the white house its a nice boarding house you hate like the dickens to move out friends demands two things are acting in favor of persuading the president one this earnest and insistent demand of his friends who dont want to move out and some of whom honestly believe that it would be tor for the general good if the president stayed on their arguments are many the second factor and the one which could elect mr roosevelt for a fourth term if he does run again can be expressed in the well known slogan dont swap horses while crossing a stream it is the reasoning behind this homely expression which of course provides the most persuasive argument to any president on the other hand if by 1944 hitler has been defeated the president might feel that he could serve even better at the peace table if he were not the head of a political party it if lie he were not hound bound by certain domestic policies which the head of an administration must administer with one eye on the votes in the next election I 1 belleve believe that if the president felt positively that he would be allowed to play the principal role in the peacemaking peace pence making even though someone else were in the white house perhaps a republican or if lie he felt that as president he would be less effective as a af pf peacemaker he would not consider a fourth term |