| Show I I. I GERMAN LEADER i I CALLED BY DEATH DOTH I CHIEF EXECUTIVE SUCCUMBS AFTER VALIANT FIGHT FOLLOWING FOLLOWING FOLLOWING FOL- FOL LOWING OPERATION Death Produces Complicated Situa Situation a. a tion In In View of Approaching Approach Approach- ing Presidential Election 1 Berlin Derlin Ebert first president of ot tho the German Gorman republic I died last lant week from peritonitis which I followed an operation for appendicitis I Tho The former en whose I skill in guiding the time Infant republic through the time first turbulent years of or orIts Its existence was acknowledged even by his bitter enemies made a gallant tight fight for tor life liCe But his system had been undermined mined by an attack of influenza influenza enza anza before the time operation and his heart was not equal to the thc burden imposed Imposed Im posed pORed by the poison which had spread throughout his system Around his bedside when the time end came were his wife their daughter Amalie and und her husband Dr Wilhelm Wil- Wil helm Jaeneke and und their thell sole son to survive tho the war Freiderich Jr State Secretary was the time only other other oth oth other er person present aside fl from om the doctors doctors doctors doc doc- tors and nurses The political attacks upon the presIdent president president pres pres- ident which culminated in the Mag- Mag deborg trial and the time efforts to connect connect connect con con- him with the time Barmat loans scandal scandal scandal scan scan- dal added greatly to the time burdens imposed im mm pos posed d upon him as chief chiet executive ofa or of ora ora a a new republic Putsches and threats of or putsches and the time jibes of or the monarchists who could not bear hear the idea of ot a working workingman man succeeding the time had helped to undermine his once rugged constitution But the firmness with whim which he lie managed the political crisis ar arising from Crom the tangled party system and the simple dign dignity ty with which Frau Flau Ebert Ehert met her duties us as first lady of Germany disarmed many of oC their sharpest critics There e was probably not another leader in Germany his cn enemies mies- mies admitted ad all- mUted who could ha have e succeeded where he did dil and his death four months before- before the presidential election election election elec elec- tion produces more confusion in a apolitical apolitical apolitical political situation already badly mud lied died President Ebert was the first of aUthe all aU the patriotic Germans to forget torget party lines hues when lien it became necessary to check the extremists either In the radical or conservative camps He lIe frequently brought curses upon hl hii hit head from front the time one side or the time other b by approving measures which the they according to their viewpoints deemed either reactionary or too radical His lIis attitude won tho the confidence of oC the ambassadors and ministers accredited accredited to Berlin and he was a powerful powerful power power- ful factor In bringing about acceptance acceptance accept accept- ance ance of or the Dawes plan which promises promises promises prom prom- to calm th time the storm that has raged about the time reparation problem for so soman man many years Herr Ebert start started d life liCe as a sad sat but years of experience as asa asa a labor organizer and official of unions together with his wide training training training train train- ing in practical politics developed eloped him even as his admirers pointed out out the time late lato Samuel Gompers was developed in America |
