This thread reminds me of something I ran across while writing my undergrad thesis.

“Mr. Ghandi and Herr Hitler were two hardly distinguishable specimens of the same species of foreigner… both of them superlatively exotic, and the average member of a British Cabinet may have reasoned in November 1937 that the guileless tamer of Ghandi [Lord Halifax] had at any rate ‘a sporting change’ of taming Hitler likewise. Were not both these political ‘mad-mullahs’, non-smokers, non-drinkers of alcohol, non-eaters of meat, non-riders on horseback, and non-practicers of blood-sports in their cranky private lives?” (Arnold Toynbee, Survey of International Affairs, 1937, vol. I, p. 338)