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Herren Severing & Grimme managed to send their passports to the Presidential Palace, breathed a mite easier when they were able to say, "Our true friend President von Hindenburg is holding our passports as trustee...
...Paul von Hindenburg swore eternal fealty to the Hohenzollern Crown-yet permitted himself to be elected President. Elected and reelected, he twice swore as President to preserve, protect and defend the Republican Constitution, Article 3 of which reads: The national colors are black- red-gold...
While most Germans were staggered by this edict, the Official German Press Censor nonchalantly passed the following comment by Correspondent John Elliott, Chief of the New York Herald Tribune's Berlin Bureau: "The prestige of President von Hindenburg among the Republican portion of the population is completely ruined by today's developments. He no longer commands the confidence of the entire nation as he did a year ago. He was re-elected at that time by the Republican vote in the confident expectation that he would preserve the Constitution. In this belief the German Republicans have been sorely...
Obviously the more complete Paul von Hindenburg discredits himself in the eyes of the world, the better for ambitious Adolf Hitler who last week was in effect Dictator of Germany with complete control of press censorship...
...presidential study 85-year-old Paul von Hindenburg disdainfully refuses 43-year-old Adolf Hitler's plea that he, as leader of the Nazi Party (largest in the Reichstag) be made Chancellor with "precisely the powers" of Benito Mussolini (TIME, Aug. 22). Less than six months after this rebuff, the Goddess of the Eternal Court of History-as Orator Hitler so fetchingly calls her-makes him Chancellor of the Reich by assent of Old Paul von Hindenburg (TIME...