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Facing President Paul von Hindenburg last week was a properly baked pretzel lour feet long, a pair of suspenders brightly stitched by a little girl, several cases of "Dear Lady's Milk"* sent by an old gentleman and some 22,000 other presents, plus 1,700 cable and radiograms received on the President's 85th birthday...
...happiest birthday present. Therefore-Vorwartsmit Gott!" By next morning astute campaigners for von Papen had adopted as their political slogan the President's reverent words: ''Forward with God!" This was more than many a German could stomach. If von Papen was stealing the nimbus of von Hindenburg, then revered Old Paul had himself ceased to be sacrosanct. Soon, for the first time in a German electoral campaign, the President was openly and savagely attacked. Brown-Shirt bands of Hitler Nazis (National Socialists) rushed about Berlin, sticking up everywhere posters which read: HERR PRESIDENT VOX HINDENBURG...
...Sept. 19) for fear it would vote down the President's decree cutting employes' wages and subsidizing employers by granting them tax remissions in the form of negotiable certificates. The Reichstag, after it was dissolved, voted down the President's decree 513 to 32 but von Hindenburg and von Papen successfully held this vote to be illegal. Therefore their cut-&-subsidize decree remains in force...
...Government!" In Leipzig, a few days later, eminent counsel for the State of Prussia, the State of Bavaria and the State of Baden began an unprecedented suit before the German Supreme Court, claiming that Chancellor von Papen acted unconstitutionally when he, acting under a decree of President von Hindenburg, suppressed the elected Gov ernment of Prussia and replaced it by an appointed Federal Commissioner (TIME, Aug. I). Obviously this suit, which the Supreme Court is expected to decide this week, will either whitewash Herren von Hindenburg and von Papen or brand them as Constitution-breakers in the eyes of German...
Birthdays. Paul von Hindenburg. 85; Richard B. Harrison (God in The Green Pastures), 68; Oscar (Waldorf) Tschirky, 66; Mahatma Gandhi, 63; King Christian of Denmark, 62; Charles ("Gabby'') Street...