What would U. S. editors say if President Calvin Coolidge ordered for the White House servants a set of magnificent liveries: canary-yellow coats, wine-colored breeches, white silk stockings, patent leather pumps?
Last week President Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg of the German Republic ordered such liveries for his flunkies. Exulted the Monarchist Deutsches Tageblatt:
"In this way the German executive will be once again placed on an equal footing with the heads of foreign states."
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