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...Berlin, antic mechanicals of the Saddlers' Trade Union met and reinstalled Friedrich Ebert as a member of their fraternity. It mattered not to them that Germany's first President is long since dead (TIME, March 9, 1925). Still less were they mindful of his exceedingly pat remark: "It is as absurd to call me 'the Saddlemaker-President' as to call a great commander 'Sergeant-Fieldmarshal' because he once held the lower rank...
...mechanicals remembered only that they had cast out Herr Ebert from their union in 1919 for being too conservative, for having become known as "the Kaiser's Socialist." To them it seemed "only right, considering developments since 1919" that Friedrich Ebert should be able to boast celestially that he is a saddlemaker in good standing...
...months ago the proprietor of a small Italian resort glowed at the following tribute from the daughter of Frederick Ebert, late saddle-maker-President of Germany, and her husband, Doktor Wilhelm Jaenicke, son of the Kaiser's one-time bootmaker and now an attaché of the German Foreign Office. "Your hotel is so pleasant that we have temporarily forgotten that Hindenburg is President in Germany...
...Matthias Erzberger, German Minister of Finance, was assassinated. All Germany was in ferment. The wearing of their uniforms in the street by former Army and Navy officers was declared to be inciting unrest. A few days later President Ebert issued a decree forbidding the wearing of uniforms by ex-officers...
...Calm yourselves, gentlemen," said the spokesman of the Reichstag Decoration Committee, "President Ebert's bust was merely put there to see how it looks. Moltke's will be back soon. So will Bismarck...