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Should a son of German President Paul von Hindenburg cause the assassination of General Erich von Ludendorff, that would be news. In China the General Yang Yu-ting played until last spring the role of a "Ludendorff." He was the "brains" of a Chinese "Hindenburg," the late and great Marshal Chang Tso-lin, then War Lord of North China and Manchuria. When the advancing Nationalist Armies forced Old Chang to flee from Peking (TIME, June 11) the War Lord's retreat was masterfully executed by "Ludendorff" Yang. With him during the desperate days of retreat was Young Chang...
...case," stripped of its humanity, happened to come before Schieffenzahn (said to be Ludendorff), engrossed as he was with annexation, colonization, Germanization, of the whole new border territory. In wholesale efficiency as to forestry, mineral resources, new currency, savings-banks, travelling incinerators, German bookshops, and paper factories for newspapers, insignificant Grischa fell under the category of discipline necessary to state maintenance. In vain did old von Lychow, beloved of his men, argue that it is justice preserves the state: "I know that justice and faith in God have been the pillars of Prussia, and I will not look on while...
...German people" seem to include only those who are ready to enter with von Ludendorff into the "German religion" which he described as one founded upon the worship of Wotan and other ancient "strong" Teuton gods...
Though General von Ludendorff may be merely passing through a phase of mental aberration, he has been at least temporarily cold-shouldered by all of the political associates who, less than a year ago, acknowledged his leadership as head of an extreme Monarchist faction in the Reichstag...
...General has consistently criticized Feldmarschall von Hindenburg for that "disloyalty to our Kaiser" which he showed by allowing himself to be elected President. For at least three years the two old warriors have not met or spoken. Therefore it was all the more remarkable that Erich von Ludendorff appealed to Paul von Hindenburg to save him from the "pests...