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...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 30% of the Republican vote, could certainly be expected to sup port a Monarchical fait accompli. Something under 8% of the people favor a dictatorship of the proletariat...
...Zaghlul's accession to power would be a return to the anarchy and indiscipline from which the Ziwar Cabinet has lately steadily been effectinga rescue. The inevitable result of a return of the Zaghlulist régime would be the defeat of all the hopes of Egyptian independence and a resumption of British control. We are determined at any cost to prevent this eventuality...
...sluice to the strains of Internationale, opened the Shiraksky Canal, 40 miles long. Two miles of its course runs through a tunnel bored under rocky mountains. It is designed to irrigate 15,000 acres and is the first engineering feat of any consequence attempted during the Bolshevik régime...
...that, if they had not a great man as head of the State, at least they had an able one. In 1918, when a surging multitude vociferously acclaimed him President of the Republic (he had then just succeeded Prince Max von Baden as Chancellor after the Imperial régime had fallen), he neither refused nor accepted, but passed the incident off with a statement that he must first consult the other leaders of the Social Democratic Party. It was a characteristic attitude and an attitude that he unswervingly followed throughout his tenure of the Presidency. At that time...
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...