The news that Gen¢ is bidding for a pol gives special importance to his book Thoughts of a Soldier," which was reviewed in these columns only a days ago. It may be that the General is looking to the time when the veteran President retires into private life, His views on profession and the larger issues of International relationship have already been noticed. But his book also provides some guide to his out-Took on national polities, and those passages well deserve attention in the light of his new ambitions. Perhaps his tribute to Field Marshal yon Hindenburg gives the key to his' own general attitude towards the new Germany. He says:
"Yet, if we contemplate Hindenburg's personality to-day, it appears move. urgent a appropriate Father to: consider his importance in the life of chan to fnanire paris ni im, R'aymbol. of our time, a symbol of 1 devotion to, service, 12 duty, to the 'He has grown out of the el beh the roots of his strength lay' ind. till Hie, into the of the. present day.
His nature has not changed nor did need to change, The problems had changed, indeed, bu, not the stand= pone fiom. which Hindenburg pro-Reeded to. their solution. Compared itn the iperatin But there can be little doubt of the line which the General would take were he to become a dominate
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