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...petulantly "I know. I am too long." Last March when he passed through Berlin he stopped to visit Dictator Hitler- whose proximity makes it expedient for Denmark to be chummy-the German Government shrewdly put at Christian's disposal the specially built car of the late President von Hindenburg, another giant. The Danish King was thus able to drive tophatted to the Realmleader without crouching...
...ning today bears a few traces of the days when, from his offices in Radziwill Palace, he governed all Germany. A Catholic who entered the Reichstag as a Centrist Deputy some years after the Republic was set up, Dr. Bruning accepted the Chancellorship in 1930 from old Paul von Hindenburg to stave off and compromise with what the President then regarded as the Nazi Menace. In his two stormy years of office, Chancellor Bruning invoked Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, unwittingly showed Adolf Hitler how to govern Germany without the Reichstag by personal decree. Today many a German believes...
...regarded us nothing short of unfortunate that the official Harvard snub to the University of Goettingen should have come during the twenty-four hours when the whole civilized world German nation. No matter what one's political ideology may be, the Hindenburg has shown that many of the things which we regard as important and vital in life can flame up and turn to dust and ashes in a moment before a touch of the hand of the Unknown...
...sense the Unknown is not Fate or a Divine Providence or the hand of God. It is the mind of man, struggling against odds sometimes insuperable to find out about the world in which we live and move and have our beings. The Hindenburg was just such a struggle; it was once a mere figment of the imagination of men, men of prophetic soul, dreaming on things to come. Its flight was just as much of a victory as any adventure that enlarges the horizons of men and its fall more clamitous than any academic disaster, since it proved...
Accomplishing one of the most outstanding feats of modern news reel photography. Paramount Sound News brings to the screen the complete record of the recent Hindenburg disaster. The film shows the giant dirigible slowly lowering over the field at Lakehurst when everything seemed to be in perfect order. The sudden mass of flames, which enveloped it spread over the entire area of the ship with incredible rapidity...