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•_ every recognised virtue was turned Into a vice—a aim of waaJcness. Even after he became the iw&iapnted leader nation* he could not rest In peace* He projected nifl own */£ inaecurltlen onto the neighboring atfltse and then demanded th*t they bow to hia powaa-, is long fie there use a nation or a Combination of nations more powerful than Germanyt he could find the peace and security he longed for. It was that this course would lead to war because only by that m«anfl could he amah the threat and prove to himeolf that he: need no longer be afraid* It was also inevitable that the war would be as brutal and pitiless as possible for only in this way could he prove to himself that he waff not weakening in hie chosen couxfl* but was made of stuff b a coming to his conception of what a victor ahould i . . . ..i space Will not permit a data lied of the operation of the various psychological atreams ve hav* enumerated t in the determination of his everyday behavior r a . • i few have aroused sufficient speculation to warrant « plac^ in our study. One of the outstanding of these is his rages* boet writers have regarded these &a temper-tantrums, his reaction to minor frustrail ons and deprivationo. On the surface they appear to be of thia nature end yet, when w« fitudy hie behavior carefully, we^f^pd that when he Is confronted by a real frustration or deprivation, ouoh as failure to be elected to tha Preaidancy ot bfc±H£ • - REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES