HINDENBURG’S SUCCESSOR

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18234, 1 November 1933, Page 2

HINDENBURG’S SUCCESSOR

NAMED IN WILL ! WILL IT BE A HOITENj ZOLLEBN PRINCE ? 1 BERLIN, Sept, 12. President Hindenburg, the Grand OJA Man otf Germany, is spending 'anxiqus dayfc and nights at Neudeck, Ibis country seat, choosing a successor to fill his position when he dies. The ng.nd field-marshal, in spite of , his 35 yours and the eclipse he has I suffered a. result, of Hitler’s rise to power, is determined to solve this last great pWiblcpu j He intends to fight the last retreat battle, and decide, himself, what form I the future constitution of his beloved Gcrnjflny must take, j lie linn studied plan after plan and (proposal after proposal, and now, according to a report published in the ! Prague newspaper Bohemia, lie has | madri up his mind: — 1 (1) That the post of President shall hr. ahojished. Nobody, In 1 feels, can roplawYtbe majestic figure of the great. I sojdLer who lias played such :i memorable purl in the whole pageant of German grandeur between 1370 and and 1914, and who lias lived to see his country reborn. i (2) That' in place of a President, a | Rejchsfurcr—a State Leader —shall he appointed with powers similar to those of the American President; the post. Ito be executive rather .than uutlioriI tutive.. | (3) That the State Leader shall lie appointed by a State Council similar to tlui.t of t.lie Italian Grand Fascists’ 1 Council, composed of dignitaries whom Hindenburg proposes to nominate be- '■ l’ore he dies. ’j As a professed Monarchist, I linden•Jburg would, prefer to see one of the llohonzollern princes succeed him in . the position, of leader —either Prince .Wilhelm or Prince Louis Ferdinand, [ sons of tin; Crown Prince. Hindenburg has mentioned in his . will the name of the successor he would prefer. —Daily Express.