Word: reichswehr
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...German concessions: 1) Curtailment of the authority of General von Seeckt, autocratic head of the German Reichswehr. 2) The famed German military police to be demilitarized, and their characteristic green uniform replaced by that of the ordinary police. 3) The German Government to suppress the military training now being given to members of "athletic societies" throughout the Reich...
...little knoll near Leuthen, Saxony, stood Defense Minister Gessler of the Reich, last week, with General Mueller, commander of the Saxon Reichswehr, and some seventy of the highest officers of the German Army. Before them a body of infantry "advanced" toward the town in "war games." Lest the maneuvers should lack reality a battery of heavy machine guns, planted out of sight behind the officers, prepared to lay down a "protective barrage" before the infantry as it advanced...
...troop of the German Reichswehr was officially present. President von Hindenburg in full war regalia arrived by motor a few moments later. After a representative of the sometime Kaiser had placed a wreath on the memorial, the President did likewise with the words: "Your blood shall and will never be shed in vain...
Then, in company with Prince Oscar of Prussia, von Hindenburg reviewed not only the Reichswehr company but a parade of "Fatherland Societies," which are both militaristic and monarchistic. When someone inquired whether as President of a republic, he was not lending himself too much to a monarchistic demonstration, he pointed to the fact that his automobile did not bear the Presidential standard. That omission indicated that the Herr President, in the uniform of a Feldmarschall, was "participating unofficially...
...Republican newspapers this was too much. Why, they wanted to know, had Defense Minister Gessler allowed the Reichswehr to participate, if the unveiling was "unofficial"? Herr Gessler declared that a formal pledge was given him that the ceremony would be nonpolitical, and stuck to that alibi. Said the Socialist sheetlet Vorwaerts: "The monument was unveiled in the name of William II. The President of the Reich gave the representative of William II precedence, and participated in a ceremony at which the Reichswehr was incited to a breach of its oath. The game of Feldmarschall-today-and -tomorrow -President serves neither...