Word: hindenburgs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Paul von Hindenburg received representatives of the Interdenominational Church Alliance (German Evangelicals, Catholics, Jews) who called to congratulate him upon his election to the Presidency. To them the President declared that, without a spirit of religious tolerance, the future of Germany could not be advanced. He promised to work for such tolerance...
...note was received in anger by Germany. President Hindenburg pre- sided over a Cabinet council, but the probable action of the Government was not divulged. Spokesmen in the Wilhelmstrasse said that the note was dictated through fear of German trade with the U. S. and that, if the property ordered destroyed by the Allies, which they valued at $25,000,000, is destroyed, it will be impossible for Germany, suffering such a loss, to live up to the Experts' Plan...
...Vanderbilt papers (in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami). "A section of the press of America has long lived and prospered by invading the rights of the individual with a ruthlessness that would do credit to a Hindenburg. By them that valuable guarantee 'Freedom of the Press' has become a meaningless hackneyed byword. To them, printing the amount of a man's income will probably mean no more than commercializing the sorrow of a murderer's mother or the innocent family of a prostitute." ? Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., Proprietor...
...great satisfaction to us that President von Hindenburg, who is certainly a competent military expert, has stated Germany cannot think of waging war. But Germany, while keeping within the limits traced by the Versailles Treaty, must fight constantly against allowing her territory to be the battlefield of foreign armies and against permitting foreign troops to march across...
Herr Doktor Jaenicke, who married Fraulein Ebert and became the son-in- law of the late President Friedrich Ebert, was last week arrested, charged with making disrespectful remarks about President Hindenburg in a hotel guest book. In Court he admitted his offense, was suspended from service as an attache in the Foreign Office as a disciplinary measure...