24 AUGUST 1944, page 10

Or Would It? After All, There Are Many Thousands Of

Germain today who have been brought up to regard Goethe as the type d perfect German and who have none the less accepted the Nan system almost without question. Is there no item......

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By HAROLD NICOLSON I HAVE been reading during my spare moments Eckermann's Conversations of Goethe. It is a useful habit, in times of excitement, to have upon the table a book......

My Hand Strays Along The Bookcase And Rests Upon Another

volume, also bound in black, Mein Kampf : von Adolf Hitler. I open it at random and find that I had marked the phrase: "While the ability of the politician consists in mastering......

When I Was Living In Berlin, In The Years Before

the great darkness of 1933, there were moments when I became troubled and confused by the uncertainty of the German character ; it seemed to me to possess no edges and no......

Two Sets Of German Books Upon The Table Before Me,

their go characters suggesting something intricate and malignant. The ° calm, generous and lapped by the radiance of some Attic morning the other tortured, malignant and......