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...amazed Reichstager groaned as he beheld, in the place of a bust of Field Marshal Moltke, the victor of Sadowa and Sedan,* a bust of Friedrich Ebert, first President of the German Republic. Pale with rage and horror, he rushed through the Reichstag like one possessed, telling his friends of the sacrilege he had seen. His friends rushed off to verify the tale and found to their horror that not only had Moltke's bust vanished, but also that of Bismarck. Der Teufel! This was too much. In a body, they stormed the Reichstag's Decoration Committee, demanding...
Herr Doktor Jaenicke, who married Fraulein Ebert and became the son-in- law of the late President Friedrich Ebert, was last week arrested, charged with making disrespectful remarks about President Hindenburg in a hotel guest book. In Court he admitted his offense, was suspended from service as an attache in the Foreign Office as a disciplinary measure...
...decided that the Field Marshal's inauguration should take place on May 12. The President-elect appointed his only son, Major Oscar von Hindenburg, as his personal adjutant, and it was reported, but not confirmed, that he had asked Dr. Meissner, President Ebert's secretary, to remain in office. The aged soldier let it be known that he was opposed to any form of military pomp at his inauguration and that he would swear allegiance to the Constitution in civilian dress. He was, moreover, reported to have overruled his advisers by stating decisively that he would receive...
Field Marshal von Hindenburg is the first German to be elected President on a popular vote, for the late President Ebert was appointed by the Weimar Assembly, the constituent body which framed the Republican Constitution. The election of the Field Marshal means that roughly 48% of the German people arc in favor of a Monarchy (for whatever vaporings have appeared in the press, the essential issue was Monarchy vs. Republic, although there is no question of an immediate restoration of the Hohenzollerns). About 45% of the people remain attached to the Republican régime, although the Catholics, forming about...
...civic rumpus broke out in Berlin over renaming a street after the late President Friedrich Ebert. The Republicans, particularly the Socialists, want the Budapesterstrasse called Friedrich Ebertstrasse. The Budapesterstrasse runs from the Brandenburg Gate along the back of the palace gardens facing on the Wilhelmstrasse where the Foreign Office is situate. The Monarchists think this is too much honor for the saddlemaker President and a suggestion was made that a street in the Berlin suburb of Treptow, where Ebert used to live, be renamed after...