Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dead of night, just as his living body had been carried from the Presidential Palace on the Wilhelmstrasse to the sanitarium, his dead body was carried from the sanitarium to the Presidential Palace between two long lines of smoking, flaming torches, held by members of the Reichsbanner, republican organization. Flags slipped down half the length of the masts on which they were hoisted. There was a clattering of a police escort, a deep silence from a sorrowing country to mark the day upon which Fritz Ebert passed away...
...many still believe- to be a war of self-defense. Even in 1917, when he first began to agitate for peace, he was little more than a political nonentity and yet, within 18 months, this "square-shouldered chunky man" was to become the first Chief Executive of a Republican Germany...
...other leaders of the Social Democratic Party. It was a characteristic attitude and an attitude that he unswervingly followed throughout his tenure of the Presidency. At that time and since, he might have made himself a dictator; and there were (and are) not a few who asserted that the republican régime might now be stronger if a dictator had arisen. But Herr Ebert, Social Democrat that he was, was more of a Democrat than a Socialist; and he waited the voice of the 11,000,000 people who elected him President through the Constituent National Assembly at Weimar...
Talk about President Ebert's death marking the beginning of the end of the Republican régime is, for the most part, insincere; it may be that the régime is crumbling, but it has long been crumbling, Ebert or no Ebert. The fact remains that a new President will soon be chosen. Two likely men are in the running; but such is the state of politics in Germany that there is many a dark horse that may run and canter home. And of the dark horses nothing can be prophesied, for even the ex-Imperial Princes...
...ballot. The issue will then be not which candidate receives an absolute majority of the votes, but which receives the largest number of votes. As between Herrn Luther and Marx, the former will be most likely to win for stated reasons, especially as he will promise to uphold the Republican Constitution...