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I -73- a limy a a <jprtain diatano* about that aubtle quality of aloofness-.." And Fry (677) aays* "H» lives in tha mid Ht of Jtuo&y man and yat ha lives alone-* / It is wall-tnoira thit ha o&mot early on & normal eon- vGrant ion or disautfrion with peopla- Bran if Only on* pareon i* i praaent he mist do all the tolling* Ria manner of sp#aoh aotm loafls any <xsnv»r94ttonal qualitl*B It might haTB had and tak#s on a l l ths ohtraotfrrlatia* of a l*otur& and may aaaily d^rolop h Into a tirw4#* ii* simply forgatg hln ocmpanicn* and bdiaTae ta though hs mro addressing a multitude* Str&esar (297) has j brief da40ri.ption. of hie "Mow Hitler drflir hinssIf oraot and by tha far-4w*y look In hit eyas show+d plainly that he Tf^a not Jprating meraly to ho wfta add re* eing ftft Imaglriary that atratchad far toy on d tiia walls of th» living * This i s not only true in oonneotion with political mgt- t*re* &rtn nhon ha 1A alone with hie adjutants or iKm*di*tfl staff nM triaa to be friendly ha in unable to antar into i. glv«- sivi-tjJce 0 on van at Ion. At times he aeons to want to get olonor to people *.ndl relates personal wperienofla, auohafl, "Khan I waa in Vienna," or "When I was in the Army,"* But under the«e oiroum- stancea, too* he Ins lets on doing all tha talking' and alway* re- peats tha sane stories over and ewer again in exactly tha jnme font, almost as though he had menurlzed thorn- Tha gist .of most of these «torj« is ootitainod in KEIN KtfiPF. Hie frionda \ REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES