Show f i HI HINDENBURG DENBURG GERMANYS GERMANY'S I NY grand grand' old man man manis is is' gone If hisT his V T r death had bad occurred at any time other than OHO oae in which Europe faces gravest est uncertainties uncertain uncertain- ties the passing of this sol patriot dier would have hae caused world-wide world mourning A Ap 4 it is the emotions which arc are stirred by the event a are e transcended by anxiety over its possible consequences Admiration for the character and mind of Paul von yon Hindenburg l g since obliterated d an any war born hatred the dogged fighter in the countries which were v vre re Germanys Germany's enemies I A veteran of the Prussian Austro-Prussian war of 1866 the Prussian Franco war of 1870 and andfield field marshal of the armies of the fatherland i il ithe the world w war r he has bas proved pro himself as liS as a statesman as as' he lie was a soldier because go of o his loyalty to louis his race and and- the land of his birth He saved Germany y from complete destruction de in iii war var his by consummate te strategy and nd leade leadership hi he s saved v d' d it from d dismember dismember- r I i i i l ment in time of peace in its itc first great po- po lical heal crisis and from utter chaos by lis' his own stability and wisdom as he lie repressed the ma mad impetuosity of Hitler in the first year of the tho dictatorship History may record in iii later years rears that he lie also saved his country from civil war wal in the time crisis clisi pre precipitated by hy the time nazi purge of blood It may also set down clown that in the time annals of th the German Gernian people towers towers tow tow- ers above Bismarck in achievement S Succeeding to his high office is an nn alien megalomaniac the willing tool of the forces which made his Ids accession to power po possible sible An obscure and eccentric Austrian house painter lie he became a lance corporal in iii the thc imperial arm army leading ng- ng three other soldiers in iii battle Yon Von I s 's genius directed direct d When denied the h by ly lyTon Von Ton Hindenburg before the Hu Von I Von coalition the fiel fiery nazi b boasted that he would outlive the time aged president and yet et would gain what he lie ought sought It i is difficult difficult cult to believe belie that he has not impatiently awaited the death cath of this great reat world figure in his eagerness to obtain the absolute power over the 65 Germans granted him by his rubber stamp cabinet almost before the time body of the stricken der err alte had had been chilled by death Distrustful of the lime lIe he required that the thc soldiers of the time regular army take a anew anew anew new oath of allegiance to hi him n. n The rhe cabinet decree lodges absolute power in Hitler as and chancellor and in Von Vou as vice ice chancellor but chancellor but Yon Von on is isto isto isto to go to Austria in inasmuch as Hitler dared not include him in the thc nazi liquidation and was prevented from re removing him from the cabinet cab cab- met inet by Von Hindenburg Hitler required lequir d th that t time the ca cabinet stipulate that he lie had full power to choose his Ius deputy In all aU these circumstances is it any wonder won won- conservatives conser in iii Germany are der cr that the gravely gravel concerned for the time immediate future that all the powers eagerly await events which hichi shall give i e even slight hint of what is turning over in the mind of this fanatic y It is sheer fo folly ly to o attempt to look ahead almead In his recent address droned to the special convocation of the he lie made no reference whatever whatever what what- ever to his foreign forcin policy Before the vacation vacation vaca vaca- tion of the storm troops his uniformed partisans partisans par par- numbered an estimated Returning Re turning yesterday to dut duty they are reported to have dwindled to an estimated at most Is there an implication of lost allegiance in this 1 Has it a bearing upon the new new oath of fealty demanded of the regular arm army The answer may not come before the plebiscite ordered for fOl August 19 a 19 a Sunday which the thc world will win await with peculiar anxiety In the most dramatic crisis in in the history of Germany a great but bewildered cd people loses the strength of or her noble patriot to havethe have haye havethe the helm taken over oyer by an whose creed is is' built upon hate hatte e an l r ance l To what destiny he lie leads then they cannot know n nor u c an can the time rest of tl the v world |