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...mustached but magnetic little man bounded out of bed after four hours sleep, soaped his soft flesh with cold water, shaved with cold water, put on his always neat but never smart clothes and braced himself for the third of his historic encounters with Paul von Beneckendorf und von Hindenburg, Der Reickspräsident...
Only President von Hindenburg could oust General von Schleicher as Chancellor and to do so he had only to refuse to sign a decree giving von Schleicher power to dissolve the Reichstag. Such power the President had given to all his Chancellors since enough Hitler Deputies began to be elected to make it impossible for a Cabinet opposed by Der Osaf to get a vote of confidence. Last week General von Schleicher, knowing that the Reichstag was about to meet this week, called on President von Hindenburg to ask for what had become "the usual powers of dissolution...
Since 85-year-old President von Hindenburg has no head for reading attachés' reports they will be handed in to the various German Ambassadors and Ministers who will pop them into diplomatic pouches, send them direct to Statesman von Schleicher...
...regular reader of TIME I have noted its unusual accuracy in reporting news. It is thus with hesitancy that I wish you to explain the statement in Jan. 2 issue of TIME, ". . . Lieut.-Col. Oscar von Hindenburg, whose brunette wife, about to bear a daughter...
...Frau von Hindenburg's babe was born day after the Christmas party at her father-in-law's, shortly before TIME, Jan. 2, went to press. Alert editing made it possible to include the Milestone in the news story...