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Reichspräsident. Every German knows by heart the words of Martin Luther's hymn: "Ein' Feste Burg ist Unser Gott" (A Mighty Refuge is Our God). To Germans, both Republicans and Royalists, HINDENBURG is a feste burg too. If, as many thought last week, Germany struggling against disaster was fighting the battle of capitalism, then Hindenburg was capitalism's last prop...
...Action. Back from his red brick summer home in Neudeck, East Prussia hurried the 83-year-old Reichspräsident last week to his official Berlin residence, the greystone rococo Palace on the Wilhelmstrasse. He did not leave the premises. Three times a day, his shepherd dog, Rolf, by his side, he tramped the gardens in back for a constitutional, the rest of the time spent with his ministers, signing decrees that Chancellor Brüning suggested. They closed the stock exchanges and for two days, to avert headlong panic, all the banks. They selected a Federal Commissioner of Finance...
...four daughters squealed with rapture when nice old President Raymond Poincaré brought them wrist watches, then a great novelty. One day last week an entire moving van full of presents and regalia swung out of the courtyard behind which lives modest, genial M. Le Président Gaston Doumergue. "Notre bon Gastounet va en la Tunisie!" murmured the crowd. But before beloved little Gaston could be off he had to do a final chore...
Chatting amiably and informally last week, Prime Minister Raymond Poincare answered a correspondent's pert question: "Mon cher Président* why don't you declare yourself a Dictator? Moi, j'aime les Mussolinis, les Primo de Riveras, les Pil-sudskis...
...slim, excited equerry climbed and scrambled to reach Old Paul von Hindenburg, who was hunting chamois, last week, high in the Bavarian Alps. Panting, the equerry snapped to a flushed salute before the President of Germany, and held out a telegram. "Urgent! Herr Reichs Präsident!" he gasped...