Anyhow, He's Busy

One year ago, on the German Heroes' Memorial Day (March 15), Adolf Hitler told his people: "The Bolshevik hordes, which could not be defeated this winter by the German soldiers . . . will in the coming summer be crushed to utter destruction." Last week, Heroes' Memorial Day was postponed without explanation.

No bulletin from Berchtesgaden, no communique from the Reich Chancellery told the German people and the world where Adolf Hitler was. He had not spoken or made any public appearance for four months and a half (a few public statements had been read for him). The U.S. State Department had seen reports that Hitler had suffered a complete nervous breakdown, added that these reports were wholly unconfirmed. Stockholm reported that a famed brain surgeon, Professor Herbert Olivecrona, had been in Germany to treat an important patient.

From a neutral government with representatives in Berlin, London heard that the Fuhrer was suffering from mental depression. That much, at least, the world could believe.

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