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German People: Patriotic Germans of every district and clan have nominated me for the highest office in the Fatherland. I follow this call, after earnest meditation, in fidelity to my country. ... If this duty calls me to act on constitutional grounds, without regard to party, person, origin or calling, as President, I shall not be found wanting...
...extend my hand to every German who thinks of the Nation, who protects from within and without the dignity of the German name and who desires social peace and beg him "help to resurrect our Fatherland...
...Royalist queried: "How about the Communists who have just cried, 'Down with the Fatherland; long live the International...
...Prefect smiled, said: "If they shout 'Down with the Fatherland,' why you might use your fists, but don't use canes...
...Peking, the Baron stayed until the War broke out, when he returned to his Fatherland and "served faithfully." After the War, he was chosen by Chancellor Wirth and Foreign Minister Rathenau to accompany them to Genoa where, largely owing to his knowledge of Russia, he was most influential in negotiating the famous Russo-German Treaty of Rapallo...