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...Paul von Hindenburg, who has been very much like King Victor Emmanuel in the public eye, has had a birthday, and such birthday ceremonies as to make him once more a center of discussion and of speculation. One wonders just what Paul von Hindenburg thinks of Hitler, but senility and the admirable repression of his public utterance simply leave one wondering. There is, of course, the very strong possibility that he does not think of Hitler at all, that extreme age has so relaxed the fibers of his mind as in the case of the very late Victoria, that nothing...
...week. The military rank of Nazi Goring, second most powerful man in Germany, was until last week just what it had been at the end of the War, Captain. His promotion, jumping him six full steps, came not from Adolf Hitler but from the President, old Field Marshal von Hindenburg (who took 27 years to advance the same distance). Cautious Germans, secretly fearing the Nazi experiment, have long consoled themselves with the thought that the Reichswehr was not yet completely Nazified, that it was entirely loyal to the old Field Marshal. Only twice before, to Chancellors Bismarck and Bethmann-Hollweg...
Having made his gesture, Old Paul saw to it that General Goring would still have military superiors. There are three living German Field Marshals: von Hindenburg, von Mackensen, and former Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. All three share the same private opinion of Adolf Hitler. At the same time that General Goring got his trousers the Chief of the Reichswehr, General Werner von Blomberg, was moved up from General to Colonel General, Germany's highest peacetime rank...
...Polish border on the battlefield of Tannenberg, the other near the French border at quiet little Rudesheim on the Rhine. By roaring 600 mi. across Germany in a fast plane. Handsome Adolf was able to appear and speak at both. At Tannenberg he presented to Old Paul von Hindenburg a tract of land adjacent to his Neudeck home; at Rudesheim he whooped it up for the Saar plebiscite of 1935 which may return the Saar Basin to Germany...
Foremost among the TIME actors are William Adams who speaks as two Presidents. Roosevelt and von Hindenburg, Jack Smart who speaks as Huey Long; Ted de Corsia who does Mussolini and Herbert Hoover. Alfred Shirley is three British subjects, Ramsay MacDonald, the Prince of Wales and Mahatma Gandhi. Marian Hopkinson is Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt; Westbrook Van Voorhis, Hitler; Porter Hall, Stalin. Barbara Bruce is Frances Perkins and Mrs. James Roosevelt (the President's mother). Remains to be seen whether Pedro de Cordoba (ex-King Alfonso of Spain), John Battle (Vice President Garner) and Charles Slattery (Al Smith) will...