GERMANY: VorwartsmitGott!

GERMANY

"Vorwartsmit Gott!"

Facing President Paul von Hindenburg last week was a properly baked pretzel lour feet long, a pair of suspenders brightly stitched by a little girl, several cases of "Dear Lady's Milk"* sent by an old gentleman and some 22,000 other presents, plus 1,700 cable and radiograms received on the President's 85th birthday, Oct. 2.

Taking his birthday presents as a touching text last week, Old Paul broadcast an appeal to Germans, asked them to give him at the general election Nov. 6 one more present: unified support of the Cabinet of...

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