LH--

Also, It's a question of time. I did an extensive study of the picture of the US as seen in the pages of the Voelkischer Beobachter, from at least 1936 to 1945 and it was fascinating how it changed.

It's certainly likely that in 1933-34 the ignorance about Hitler on this side of the Pond would have resulted in at least some people getting the picture that the 3rd Reich wanted to portray, and that was depicted in the pages of that organ:   specifically that Hitler and FDR were very similar: each one led a country with a very serious unemployment problem, and was administering tough medicine for a desperate time.

The question is how long the parallel was seen in North America.   I'd be very interested to know the exact date of the newspaper to which you refer.

It's also well known that there were Nazi sympathizers in North America.   As I recall one group was the "Silver Shirts".   Not to mention the Bund. And the followers of Father Coughlin must have been about as tolerant as the Hitler Youth.

So who ran the Toronto paper to which you refer in those years? That would be another interesting question?