"Something of a Dilettante"

A frank interview with the most hated German of 1918 about the most hated German of 1938 would be news in any language. Last week, Ken ("The Insider's World"), carried, well inside its lush pages, something that purported to be such a scoop. Titled "The Kaiser on Hitler" and signed by "W. Burckhardt," it described an interview at Doom during "that tense last week of September." Author "Burckhardt" pictured the once All-Highest pacing up and down and throwing off such amazing indiscretions as: "There's a man alone, without family, without children, without God. Why should he be human? . . . He has got rid of, or even killed . . . Papen, Schleicher, Neurath--and even Blomberg. He has nothing left but a bunch of shirted gangsters!''

This statement was promptly smeared by a member of the Doom household as an "invention," but Ken's Editor Arnold Gingrich insisted the "interview" was authentic. It first appeared in the September 30 issue of Voil`a, a Paris weekly that specializes in nude pictures and pornographic reporting. Mr. Gingrich said he could not get permission to print the real name of Author "Burckhardt," who was reported by Ken's Paris agents to be "something of a dilettante who hobnobs with the royal bunch."

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