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...royalist demonstration at Potsdam this week, Germany has given western Europe another scare and revived the rumors of a Hohenzohern estoration current at the time of von Hindenburg's election. It seems that during the unveiling of a tablet to the war dead of the Kaiserin Augusta Guard, General Sixt von Armin made a sensational address in which he committed himself and his audience--including the Republican troops--to unbroken fidelity to the Kaiser...
...defence minister Gessler, the acting chancellor was on the platform, as well as President von Hindenburg, arraved in his old uniform resplendent with spiked helmet and imperial decorations, a great bowl has naturally gore an from the Socialists and Liberals at the impropriety of Republican offieia's participating in an anti-Republican demonstration...
...been clear from the first that Germany could not refuse the invitation of the Allies, and that it was to her advantage to accept. But nationalists continued to howl that Germany had been "insulted by being commanded* to appear" and that Minister Stresemann must not go. Finally President von Hindenburg asserted himself at a Cabinet session last week and squelched Dr. Schiele, Minister of the Interior, ardent obstructionist leader...
Standing at the banks of the Rhine for tht first time since the World War, President von Hindenburg "beheld with emotion this stream of our destiny" and cried: "It was ours as long as we were united; we lost it when discord divided us ... The Rhine must forever be an admonition to Germans to remain united...
Seven years ago Feldmarschall von Hindenburg relinquished his command of the German Army and bid what he almost certainly thought would be a permanent farewell to military pomp, for he was then 71. A few days ago President von Hindenburg, Commander-in-Chief of the armies of Germany, donned again the full uniform of a Feldmarschall and was cheered to a frenzied echo as he reviewed the troops of the Republic at Neubrandenburg. Flags flew: the black white and red standards of Imperial Germany...