Through the Young Men's Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these countries.

Through the Young Men's Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these countries.

As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone.

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other.

One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.