Word: hindenburgs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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German Republic. The Centre-Right Cabinet of Chancellor Wilhelm Marx is founded upon a perhaps not unshakable rock ballast of coalition support, but the German Republic has long gone forward, irrespective of cabinet changes, under four perennial leaders: 1) Revered, monolithic President Paul von Hindenburg contributes to the State stability and prestige; 2) "The German Lloyd George," Dr. Gustav Stresemann, continues as Foreign Minister in cabinet after cabinet and negotiates ceaselessly among the former enemy powers from whom he has filched many a concession; 3) stern, able Defense Minister Otto Gessler is even more a fixture at his post than...
Well poised Germans no longer take seriously that keen but brittle strategist, General Erich Ludendorff. Long of since he has Hindenburg"- if ceased to he be ever "the was - brains but not until last week did he dare to flout openly the great Feldmarschall who is President of the Republic...
Throughout Germany these words were voluntarily suppressed, last week, by nearly all news organs-so great and beloved is Paul Ludwig von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, so puny and ignored is Erich Friedrich Wilhelm von Ludendorff...
Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann, delighted, informed Reichsprasident General-feldmarschall Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg that the appointment of Dr. von Prittwitz might now be signed, and letters of credential to President Coolidge were forthwith made out officially naming him German Ambassador to succeed Baron Ago von Maltzan, recently killed in an airplane accident (TIME...
Clad in his marshal's uniform, with the baton of his rank in his left hand, the aged Hindenburg, almost 80, passed through the cheering throng, stopping now and then to say a few words to a former comrade-in-arms. He is grim, cool, calm, yet genial enough on occasion. Germans recall a story about their President that exemplifies his peculiar wit: One of his old friends is alleged to have asked...