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...Monseigneur: The Russian Congress, which unites all the patriots aspiring to the re-establishment of the Russian nation, acclaims in the person of your Imperial Highness the foreordained representative of the nationalist idea as well as the glorious supreme chief of the army and defender of the fatherland since the first days of our Calvary...
...Upon the issuance of your appeal all Russians without exception will take up unhesitatingly the glorious task of liberating the fatherland...
...whole people recall at this sad hour her majestic beauty, her venerable silver hair, her untiring charity, her austere composure in sorrow, her fervent love of the fatherland and her exquisite sensitiveness as a queen and woman...
Until recently the body of Baron von Richthofen has lain buried on French soil at Amiens, where it was interred by his enemies with full military honors on April 21, 1918. Now, however, it is to be brought back to the Fatherland, and on November 20 "all Germany will unite in a vast memorial service...
Then, in company with Prince Oscar of Prussia, von Hindenburg reviewed not only the Reichswehr company but a parade of "Fatherland Societies," which are both militaristic and monarchistic. When someone inquired whether as President of a republic, he was not lending himself too much to a monarchistic demonstration, he pointed to the fact that his automobile did not bear the Presidential standard. That omission indicated that the Herr President, in the uniform of a Feldmarschall, was "participating unofficially...