Foreign News: Omit Flowers

Germans were sternly warned not to throw flowers (or anything else) at President von Hindenburg or Chancellor Hitler when they attend the opening of the new

Reichstag in the Garrison Church at Potsdam this week.

Though a layman, the 85-year-old President announced that he would "invoke a blessing on the new Reichstag as an act of State," clergymen being for this purpose superfluous.

In the crypt under the Garrison Church, now the Reichstag Building, Old Paul proposed to lay a wreath on the tomb of FREDERICK THE GREAT.

In a two-hour session the Reichstag was expected...

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