 Journalist Lanning Warren interviewed Stein in her Paris apartment in a piece published in "The New York Times Magazine" on May 6, 1934.Stein, seemingly ironically, proclaimed that Hitler merited the Nobel Peace Prize.Given that after the war Stein commented that the only way to ensure world peace was to teach the Germans disobedience, this 1934 Stein interview has come to be interpreted as an ironic jest made by a practiced iconoclast hoping to gain attention and provoke controversy.