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...brought Fritz Ebert to the front of his party. His voice was more than once heard in the support of militarism. If Germany won the War, the workers would share in the foreseen prosperity; if Germany lost, the workers would be rid of the Kaiser. Several times he sat in council with the All Highest; and when the War ended and the Kaiser fled, Ebert succeeded Prince Max von Baden as Chancellor. In such a position, he became the logical choice as President of the Republic...
...first President of Germany, Herr Ebert had to steer a difficult course. In the first place, there were no precedents upon which to fall back; he had to create them; and, in a country which for centuries had reveled in kingly glory, the lack was unusually difficult. It was said that he ate peas with his knife, that he was illiterate, that he dressed like a navvy, that his wife was "an old frump." A thousand jokes at his expense were born. Some said that Frau Ebert would sweep the Presidential Palace herself and that he would polish...
...that he unswervingly followed throughout his tenure of the Presidency. At that time and since, he might have made himself a dictator; and there were (and are) not a few who asserted that the republican régime might now be stronger if a dictator had arisen. But Herr Ebert, Social Democrat that he was, was more of a Democrat than a Socialist; and he waited the voice of the 11,000,000 people who elected him President through the Constituent National Assembly at Weimar...
...death of President Ebert has advanced the question of the presidential election. Herr Ebert was to have finished his term of office on June 30 in any case and an election was to have been held in May. Most political observers were of the opinion that the election would actually be held in March or early in April; for Germany, unlike other Republics, has no Vice President. Whenever a President is incapacitated, even for a brief period, somebody has to be appointed, or, in a more serious case, elected President. At present Chancellor Hans Luther is President ad interim...
Talk about President Ebert's death marking the beginning of the end of the Republican régime is, for the most part, insincere; it may be that the régime is crumbling, but it has long been crumbling, Ebert or no Ebert. The fact remains that a new President will soon be chosen. Two likely men are in the running; but such is the state of politics in Germany that there is many a dark horse that may run and canter home. And of the dark horses nothing can be prophesied, for even the ex-Imperial Princes...