The President of Germany, like the President of the U. S., is Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, and has no uniform. While two army divisions and all ten of Germany's divisional staffs sloshed back and forth in the rain last week, President Paul von Hindenburg wore the last uniform that was his by right, crammed his grizzled head into the spiked pickelhaube of a Field Marshal of the Imperial German army, and motored, soaking wet, from regiment to regiment. At every headquarters he rumbled pertinent questions. When answers pleased lim he nodded...
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