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President Paul von Hindenburg received representatives of the Interdenominational Church Alliance (German Evangelicals, Catholics, Jews) who called to congratulate him upon his election to the Presidency. To them the President declared that, without a spirit of religious tolerance, the future of Germany could not be advanced. He promised to work for such tolerance...
That there is a slight physical similarity between President von Hindenburg and Prince Bismarck seems undisputed. But that there is any intellectual similarity seems equally impossible to entertain. Nevertheless, Berliners are never tired of comparing their President to the Iron Chancellor. Recently, the President's sheep dog, Rolf, took up his residence at the Presidential Palace in the Wilhelmstrasse. Berliners were reminded that Bismarck's great Dane, Tyras, once was a canine resident in the Chancellery on the same street...
...note was received in anger by Germany. President Hindenburg pre- sided over a Cabinet council, but the probable action of the Government was not divulged. Spokesmen in the Wilhelmstrasse said that the note was dictated through fear of German trade with the U. S. and that, if the property ordered destroyed by the Allies, which they valued at $25,000,000, is destroyed, it will be impossible for Germany, suffering such a loss, to live up to the Experts' Plan...
...Vanderbilt papers (in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami). "A section of the press of America has long lived and prospered by invading the rights of the individual with a ruthlessness that would do credit to a Hindenburg. By them that valuable guarantee 'Freedom of the Press' has become a meaningless hackneyed byword. To them, printing the amount of a man's income will probably mean no more than commercializing the sorrow of a murderer's mother or the innocent family of a prostitute." ? Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., Proprietor...
Herr Doktor Jaenicke, who married Fraulein Ebert and became the son-in- law of the late President Friedrich Ebert, was last week arrested, charged with making disrespectful remarks about President Hindenburg in a hotel guest book. In Court he admitted his offense, was suspended from service as an attache in the Foreign Office as a disciplinary measure...