ABSTRACT
In the street [he] bought a copy of the Volkischer Beobachter and read with a sense of relief of Hitler’s triumph at the polls. That at last might convince Europe. That at last might silence the mercurial foreign correspondents who at their masters’ bidding maintained a vicious barrage of Press criticism against a nation striving to climb to its feet. Put an end to that suspicion, hate and fear engineered by the powerful irresponsible section of world opinion and there might be hope for international co-operation, understanding, peace. [Raymond Burns, Turncoat. A Political Thriller (London, 1937), p. 29.]
