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V -£35- the Chancellorship, his behevlor ia exactly thn opposite. K* i s very cool and qui#t. He Is disappointed but not enraged* Instead of carrying on lilce a spoiled clftid; he beg in a to ley plana f&r a nt* aaaault* H*idan> his biographer, his charaeteriptlc pattern as follow?t "Whan others aTtor s defeat would twva toms dospoudejstlr, coneoHng theufielves Tilth ths philosophic reflection that It wan no UP* contending against adrerse stances, Hitler delivered a second and a third assault with Julian defiance* ffh&ft ethers ftfter a succaae pould have become more CAUtxoue, because they would not dare put fortune to the proof too often and perhaps exhaust it, Hitler ptr3ioted and staked a bigger claim on Destiny with every throir." This doefl not sound like a person irho would fly Into ft rage at a trifle* Nevertheless, we know that h,e does fly into these rages and launches Into tirades on very slight provocation, . If we exejJJlne the causes of those outbursts^ we almost Invariably find that the trigger which sets them off is something which he coQBld^ra to be a challenge of his super-oan It nay be a contradiction, ft critlcien or even a doubt the truth or wisdobi of aomethlng he has said or done* or it night be a alight or the Anticipation of opposition* Bran though the subject may be triflififf or the challenge only by implicationt or even wholly imagined, he feels called upon to • - display his primitive character,ri£Franc.aU-£oiicet has alao detected and described thifl ^Ba<;t^a,^ Jia writesj *Ihofle who surround hin axe the first to adait that he n«jwvtb^KtlcQ bl***!* * ' • • • : REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES