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...offer their congratulations on behalf of the remnant of the Army and Navy came General von Seeckt and Admiral Zenker. To them the President said...
...streets. All Berlin, or so it seemed, was draped in the old Imperial colors-red, white and black. . . . A train steamed into the station. President-elect Hindenburg, his son and daughter-in-law, alighted. The aged Field Marshal was welcomed to Berlin by the Chancellor, his Cabinet, General von Seeckt, Commander of the Reichswehr, many civic authorities. Fraülein Luther presented a bouquet. . . . A procession of automobiles speeded tip the Heerstrasse (Army Street), passed through the Imperial Arch of the Brandenburg Gate, along the Wilhelmstrasse to the German Chancellery. In the first car was the grey-haired Field Marshal...
...quiet, bored way as if murder was all in the day's work. Officially, he was charged with the murder of one Rausch, a barber who had turned traitor to the German Bolsheviki. In his testimony, he admitted lying in wait several times for General von Seeckt, present head of the Reichswehr, because the Cheka had decided that he "must not only be wounded but killed, since otherwise we shall simply be making a mess of things." He and other comrades, Neumann said, had also discussed ways and means of killing the late Hugo Stinnes, because the Cheka...
Lieutenant Thormann and Dr. Grandel, charged with plotting the murder of General von Seeckt (TIME, Jan. 28), were acquitted by a jury which stated that evidence of a serious con-spiracy was nonexistent. The German press, excepting the Nationalist journals, condemned the verdict. The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung said that it "must cause painful amazement throughout the world." The year 1923 was written off the books of German banks with a sigh- of relief. No dividends were voted and many annual statements appeared with merely technical balanced debits and credits. The banks were stated, however, to be in good shape; since...
General Hans von Seeckt, Comman-der-in-Chief of the Reichswehr ( German Federal Defence Force), started the move by writing to Herr Ebert, President of Germany. Said he: "I believe the task that fell to me has practically been fulfilled. The authority of the State has been so strengthened that the measures initiated under the exceptional State ordinance for the rehabilitation of our national and economic life can be carried on without it. In case you, Herr Reichspresident, share my view, I request you make it public...