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Therefore last week Helga and Gertrud, the two little granddaughters of Old Paul von Hindenburg, dutifully kept their starched dresses clean of grass stains and their opinions to themselves. They were not the only ones balked of celebrating the 81st Birthday of the President of the German Republic. Scores, nay, hundreds of civic organizations had applied for permits to parade and joyfully demonstrate, in Berlin, before the Presidential Mansion...
...such applications were courteously refused?for Old Paul von Hindenburg had said: "May there be no public observance of the day. I shall be away from Berlin, somewhere in the quiet of the country...
...little girls' papa, Major von Hindenburg, only son of the President, was the only male, except a trusted body servant, who was privileged to travel to Schorfheide with Der Alte Feldmarschall and there to celebrate by sitting...
German newsgatherers, totally excluded from the "celebration," had to be content with interviewing at Berlin the President's nephew, Herbert von Hindenburg, who told them his favorite Hindenburg anecdote...
...seems that when Feldmarschall von Hindenburg was chosen President, an old friend of army days said to him: "What will you do when you get nervous, as you must often be, among all those politicians and with all your new responsibilities...