ANl sorts of dire predictions were made—that Germany was again head-for monarchism and that militar fam would take a new lease of life despite the Treaty of _Versailles—Marshal von Hindenburg con-ited {9 run for the presidency.
"A. week before the election, says Reuter, the first popular balloting for president under the republican constitution, the aged Field Marshal Yecelved the representatives of the German and foreign press at Hanover, they saw a vigorous, pressive personality, who. made plain that ft was only from a sense of duty to his Fatherland that he had Abandoned the quiet of his home, and that he hoped that this example of devotion to duty might contribute to the unification of a Germany sadly torn by factional strife.
On April 26, 1925, at the election. 14,889,490 Germans cast their votes for Hindenburg, who thus became the second President.
On May 2, the same year, von Hindenburg "was inaugurated and with on unhesitating voice he swore allegiance to the republican constitu-
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