Word: hindenburgs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Within the room an impetuous statesman (unidentified by the cables) brandished the initialed documents for all to see. They will be promptly submitted to the nations concerned, and formal signatures are to be exchanged in London about Dec. 1. Since President von Hindenburg and his Cabinet approved the agreements by telegraph before they were initialed, competent observers consider it cer. tain that the following treaties will eventually come into force...
...troop of the German Reichswehr was officially present. President von Hindenburg in full war regalia arrived by motor a few moments later. After a representative of the sometime Kaiser had placed a wreath on the memorial, the President did likewise with the words: "Your blood shall and will never be shed in vain...
Then, in company with Prince Oscar of Prussia, von Hindenburg reviewed not only the Reichswehr company but a parade of "Fatherland Societies," which are both militaristic and monarchistic. When someone inquired whether as President of a republic, he was not lending himself too much to a monarchistic demonstration, he pointed to the fact that his automobile did not bear the Presidential standard. That omission indicated that the Herr President, in the uniform of a Feldmarschall, was "participating unofficially...
...monument was unveiled in the name of William II. The President of the Reich gave the representative of William II precedence, and participated in a ceremony at which the Reichswehr was incited to a breach of its oath. The game of Feldmarschall-today-and -tomorrow -President serves neither Hindenburg the man nor his high office...
...defence minister Gessler, the acting chancellor was on the platform, as well as President von Hindenburg, arraved in his old uniform resplendent with spiked helmet and imperial decorations, a great bowl has naturally gore an from the Socialists and Liberals at the impropriety of Republican offieia's participating in an anti-Republican demonstration...