On some occasions, von Hinden burg's oficial utterances had an i national repercussion: when he hhis benison to the treaty of Locarno, when he approved of Germany's admission to the League of Nations and when he emphatically repudiated the accusations that Germany nad been the cause of the world war. This declaration, made by the octogenarian president at the unveiling of the Tannenberg memorial in East Prussia on September 18, 1927, thirteen years after the outbreak of the war, provoked the French press to the' assertion that "Germany had not yet been morally 'The German president was an indefatigable worker, and his daily time table at the' presidential resldence in the Wihelmstrasse was adhered to with military punctuality. His favourite recreation was the chase. Every summer he spent a month hunting in the highlands of Dietramszell, Bavari devotion to the public weal," phrase from an address by Chancellor Marx, speaking in the name of the German nation on the occasion of von Hindenburg's 80th birthday, on October 2, 1927, which was celebrated throughout the Reich in a manner that left no doubt as to the deep veneration in which the whole country held him. Probably no German ever received such an overwhelming tribute to his popularity as did Presi dent von Hindenburg on that acc sion, Ten million marks were volun. tarily subscribed by Germans to establish a "Hindenburg Fund" which the aged celebrant dedicated to the assistance of needy war victims.
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