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Under the chairmanship of President von Hindenburg the Cabinet of the Reich, in full plenary session, recorded unanimously last week its complete concurrence with the procedure of Herr Stresemann and Dr. Luther in initialing the Locarno treaties (see INTERNATIONAL). Immediately thereafter the Foreign Relations Committee of the Reichstag indicated that no opposition to the treaties need bo feared from the Central or Socialist parties, since Herr Stresemann had declared before it: "The Rhineland treaty contains nothing but renunciation of all aggressive attacks . . . and does not interfere with the self-determination of peoples or with any other kind of peaceful development...
Within the room an impetuous statesman (unidentified by the cables) brandished the initialed documents for all to see. They will be promptly submitted to the nations concerned, and formal signatures are to be exchanged in London about Dec. 1. Since President von Hindenburg and his Cabinet approved the agreements by telegraph before they were initialed, competent observers consider it cer. tain that the following treaties will eventually come into force...
...troop of the German Reichswehr was officially present. President von Hindenburg in full war regalia arrived by motor a few moments later. After a representative of the sometime Kaiser had placed a wreath on the memorial, the President did likewise with the words: "Your blood shall and will never be shed in vain...
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...
...monument was unveiled in the name of William II. The President of the Reich gave the representative of William II precedence, and participated in a ceremony at which the Reichswehr was incited to a breach of its oath. The game of Feldmarschall-today-and -tomorrow -President serves neither Hindenburg the man nor his high office...