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Show -272- was rusty? and difficult phrases he had to form first in his mind in order to avoid a serious error, particularly of gender. What he wanted to ask? and did, was what it was like in Vienna just before the Anschluss - before and during the coming of the Nazis to Austria. "Ach! Ks war Furchtbar? Furchtbar!" It was terrible? the attorney said? Did the time here? now? in America, remind the attorney of those days in Vienna? "Nein - nein! Sie sind ganz anders?" They are entirely different? "But the Governor?" the Professor asked him? "Doesn't he remind you a little of Hitler?" "A little - perhaps? ±sut he is comical (KomischJ. Hitler was not comical? He was dangerous?" "Hitler was comical when I was there?" the Professor said? "He was laughed at? Not taken seriously? Perhaps some day the governor will no longer be comical? For me he is not now. He is dangerous?" "Ach? Gott! Uber dass kann ich nichL denken?" I cannot think of that? The man looked distressed? Fortunately? just then the host came through the dining room, his arms full of champagne glasses? Five minutes? he said? five minutes to midnight - five minutes to the new yeart The New Year!" the Professor thought? "L969!" |