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...Mustard Flag!" President von Hindenburg's pompous State Secretary, Dr. Otto Meissner was once secretary to "the George Washington of the German Republic," its first President, Friedrich Ebert (died 1925). One day last week Dr. Meissner picked up his telephone, heard a woman's voice weak with terror, the voice of Widow Ebert, a plump, pink, normally happy hausfrau...
...Meissner, when he had heard this story over the telephone, rushed to President von Hindenburg. Calmly Der Feldmarschall ordered a police investigation, dictated his "profound regrets for such unchivalrous treatment'' which were duly conveyed to Widow Ebert. Later Nazi Captain Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Minister of Interior for Prussia (i. e. of police), apologized to Germany's George Washington's still trembling widow. Safe outside Germany where he says he will stay "because of Hitlerism," Professor Albert Einstein read last week that his home had been burst into and ransacked by Nazis who said they were "looking...
...demonstrated to President von Hindenburg," boasted young Dr. Goebbels. "how necessary it was to create such a department. . . . We must create a Press joyously conscious of its responsibility to the Fatherland! . . . We must catch the soul vibrations of the German people. . . . Ach, Meine Herren, think of the Press as a great keyboard on which the Government can play...
...recently as last November, when President von Hindenburg refused to ask Adolf Hitler to form a Government, Prophet Schacht said, "There is only one man who can be Chancellor at this period and he is Adolf Hitler. If Hitler does not become Chancellor now, he will within four months" (TIME, Dec. 5). Herr Hitler became Chancellor and virtual dictator exactly 66 days later...
Germans were sternly warned not to throw flowers (or anything else) at President von Hindenburg or Chancellor Hitler when they attend the opening...