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...Germany must have Hindenburg. He is a symbol," declared the speaker in answer to a question concerning what influence the President exerted. "Germany has always had Hindenburgs. There were Hindenburgs in the Middle Ages; during the period of the Kaisers there were Hindenburgs. Now there are two--Hindenburg and Hitler...
...with all my followers, de-cline." he cried, "to conquer the people of a strange nation-who would not love us anyway. . . . "German youth is marching . . . not to demonstrate against France, but to evince that political determination . . . necessary for throwing down Communism!" Significance. From a domestic standpoint President von Hindenburg's dissolution of the Diets of all the German States was of immense importance, for the Government coolly indicated that no elections for new Diets will be held. Thus local parliamentary Government was abolished throughout Germany at one stroke last week, and the Nazi Party crushed the last fragments...
With Prime Minister MacDonald and President Roosevelt both keeping mum, Europe was startled by rumors from Berlin that President von Hindenburg will re-sign after the German election of Nov. 12, to be succeeded by Adolf Hitler as unconditional Head of the State...
...there is an unfortunate obstacle to those of such persuasion; the fact that in the early post war days Paul von Hindenburg was of all the potentates of Europe the most resigned to Germans who talked of war, and said that Germany could not issue from a second war in degradation greater than the first, cannot have been so quickly dispersed. Hindenburg would probably agree with Hitler in his disgust for Communism, and as a Teuton would always cherish a secret dalliance with the idea of baiting Jews, but one is inclined to think that if he were still whole...
Herr Goebbels, the Nazi minister for propaganda, has not been insensible to the possibilities of this situation. It has been his pleasant fancy to picture von Hindenburg as remarking at reviews of the German army that the Russian prisoners had indeed a military bearing, and as beguiling the tedium of his leisure hours with the games of the asylum. This may well be so. But, lacking as we must evidence of any positive nature, there seems more point to the view that von Hindenburg's collapse has been gradual, and is not yet consummate. There is certainly more hope...