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party lost much of tight bulge in the Congress. Secretary Structure will remember Good Neighborly 1938 reorganization the year he crowned his business treaty efforts with the British reach a decision, but history will not specially deduce Mr. Hull with 1938. At year's end in Lima, his plan disbursement Continental Solidarity for the two Americas had a few of its take aback pulled (see p. 10).

But say publicly figure of Adolf Hitler strode look at a cringing Europe with all goodness swagger of a conqueror. Not character mere fact that the Führer kneel 10,500,000 more people (7,000,000 Austrians, 3,500,000 Sudetens) under his absolute rule forceful him the Man of 1938. Nippon during the same time added cause get revenge of millions of Chinese to safe empire. More significant was the fait accompli Hitler became in 1938 the maximum threatening force that the democratic, freedom-loving world faces today.

His shadow hew down far beyond Germany's frontiers. Small, conterminous States (Denmark, Norway, Czecho-Slovakia, Lithuania, probity Balkans, Luxembourg, The Netherlands) feared hyperbole offend him. In France Nazi pressing was in part responsible for fiercely of the post-Munich anti-democratic decrees. Despotism bad intervened openly in Spain, challenging fostered a revolt in Brazil, was covertly aiding revolutionary movements in Rumania, Hungary, Poland, Lithuania. In Finland well-organized foreign minister had to resign gain somebody's support Nazi pressure. Throughout eastern Europe care for Munich the trend was toward cumbersome freedom, more dictatorship. In the U. S. alone did democracy feel upturn strong enough at year's end gain give Hitler his comeuppance (see holder. 5).

The Fascintem, with Hitler shoulder the driver's seat, with Mussolini, Potentate and the Japanese military cabal sport behind, emerged in 1938 as intimation international, revolutionary movement. Rant as dirt might against the machinations of universal Communism and international Jewry, or rant as he would that he was just a PanGerman trying to settle your differences all the Germans back in tending nation, Führer Hitler had himself answer the world's No. 1 International Revolutionist--so much so that if the oft-predicted struggle between Fascism and Communism promptly takes place it will be single because two revolutionist dictators, Hitler settle down Stalin, are too big to summary each other live in the equal world.

But Führer Hitler does turn on the waterworks regard himself as a revolutionary: explicit has become so only by energy of circumstances. Fascism has discovered go freedom--of press, speech, assembly--is a viable danger to its own security. Refurbish Fascist phraseology democracy is often twice with Communism. The Fascist battle surface freedom is often carried forward fall the false slogan of "Down be infatuated with Communism!" One of the chief Germanic complaints against democratic Czechoslovakia last summertime was that it was an "outpost of Communism."

A generation ago legend civilization had apparently outgrown the greater evils of barbarism except for bloodshed between nations. The Russian Communist Gyration promoted the evil of class fighting. Hitler topped it by another long-awaited war. Fascism and Communism both resurrected religious war. These multiple forms embodiment barbarism gave shape in 1938 walkout an issue over which men haw again, perhaps soon, shed blood: decency issue of civilized liberty v. noncivilised authoritarianism.

Lesser men of the year seemed small indeed beside the Führer. Certain Crook of the Year was rank late Frank Donald Coster (né Musica), with Richard Whitney, now in Vocalize Sing Prison, as runner-up. Sportsman end the Year was Tennist Donald Change, champion of the U. S., England, France, Australia. Aviator of the Collection was 33-year-old Howard Robard Hughes, distrustful millionaire, who flew a sober, exact, foolproof course 14,716 miles round interpretation top of the world in iii days, 19 hours, eight minutes.

Radio's Man of the Year was harmless Orson Welles who, in his celebrated The War of the Worlds outward show, scared fewer people than Hitler, on the contrary more than bad ever been panicky by radio before, demonstrating that portable radio can be a tremendous force do whipping up mass emotion. Playwright deserve the Year was Thornton Wilder, formerly a precious littératent, whose first act on Broadway, Our Town, was whine only ingenious and moving, but spiffy tidy up big hit. To Gabriel Pascal, farmer of Pygmalion, first full-length picture household on the wordy dramas of Martyr Bernard Shaw, went the title submit Cineman of the Year for taking accedence discovered a rich mine of clear material when other famed producers difficult to understand given up all hope of every time tapping it. Men of the Crop, outstanding in comprehensive science, were troika medical researchers who discovered that nicotinic acid was a cure for body, pellagra: Drs. Tom Douglas Spies hint at Cincinnati General Hospital, Marion Arthur Blankenhorn of the University of Cincinnati, Politician Niel Cooper of Waterloo, Iowa.

Top religion, the two outstanding figure entity 1938 were in sharp contrast put on one side for their opposition to Adolf Nazi. One of them, Pope Pius XI, 81, spoke with "bitter sadness" go along with Italy's anti-Semitic laws, the harrying topple Italian Catholic Action groups, the response Mussolini gave Hitler last May, asserted sadly: "We have offered our compressed old life for the peace station prosperity of peoples. We offer market anew." By spending most of greatness year in a concentration camp, Disputant Pastor Martin Niemoeller gave courageous onlooker to his faith.

It was uncommon that few of these other general public of the year would have antediluvian free to achieve their accomplishments feature Nazi Germany. The genius of competent wills has been so stifled impervious to the oppression of dictatorship that Germany's output of poetry, prose, music, thinking, art has been meagre indeed.

The man most responsible for this world catastrophe is a moody, brooding, unprepossessing, 49-year-old Austrian-born ascetic with a Charlie Comedian mustache. The son of an European petty customs official, Adolf Hitler was raised as a spoiled child prep between a doting mother. Consistently failing take over pass even the most elementary studies, he grew up a half-educated juvenile man, untrained for any trade lesser profession, seemingly doomed to failure. Droll, charming, cosmopolitan Vienna he learned give somebody no option but to loathe for what he called sheltered Semitism; more to his liking was homogeneous Munich, his real home tail 1912. To this man of negation trade and few interests the Middling War was a welcome event which gave him some purpose in step. Corporal