Evening star., 1925-04-10
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC HILLI4M HILE

There probably isn't better hater
Of America in all Germany than Field
Marshal Won Hindenburg. He incar-
mates the class that holds the United
States primarily and Overwhelmingly
responsible for Germany's loss of the
war. Hindenburg's rage over Amer
ica's Intervention in the allied cause
was the more ferocious because he
expected to make it futile, and failed.
When the United States entered the
fray eight years ago this week and
planned to send men to Europe
without stint" Hlndenburg begged
the German people to be of stout
heart. He said he would smash the
American Army in mid-Atlantic." BY
that, he meant that Won Tirpitz' $
submarines would never allow United
States soldiers in any material guam
titles to reach the battle line. If
Hindenburg ever becomes President of
Germany, he may pay US perfunctory
respect, but he will never love US.
x x X X
The writer lived in Germany un-
interruptedly for 13 years prior to
1914 and never remembered hearing
of Hindenburg in all that time. He
was one of the things that the Kaiser
had up his sleeve for THE Day." like
the Big Berthas that besieged Liege
and bombarded Paris. Ludendorf
was also brought forward as a sur
prise package. Outside of the i'm
mediate army set, his name was ut
terly unknown OF Hindenburg' s
idolatrous hold on popular affections
in Germany there is little doubt.
During the last year or two of the
war the Berliners erected a massive
Buddha- like image of him. made
of wood, into which it became a
patriots privilege to drive a nail,
provided a contribution of so-and- so
much was made for a certain soldiers
fund. For every marks contribution.
you could hammer a nail into the
Hindenburg effigy. 1t became an eye
sore as Germany's mad gamble for
world power fizzled, and came down
soon after the armistice, along with
Hindenburg's hopes and the Kaiser's
throne.
Not long ago the Brazilian govern
ment ordered a meteorological instru-
ment from the Smithsonian Institu-
ton at Washington. The bill was
$3.50 and was forwarded to Rio de
Janeiro. Payment promptly ensued
but it arrived in the form of a check
on Brazirs New York bank account
! for 150,000,000. The man who drew
I Il
| by mistake, a sort of Brazil nut. The
Smithsonian sent 1t back to Rio with
an amusing note, and Rio returned
| a check for the right amount, accom-
panied by an equally good-natural
| letter.
X y X
President t-elect Machado of Cuba
will pay his respects in Washington
about the middle of April. President
Coolidge will give a. breakfast in his
| honor at the White House. and Secre-
| tary Kellogg will entertain for Senior
Machado at the Pan-American Union
Baron de Cartier. the Belgian Am
| bassador to the United States, who
also is accredited to Cuba, will be
another of his hosts. Senior Machado
who is best known in Cuba as Gen
Machado, will visit New York before
| returning to Havana. He wants to
establish an entente cordiale with
American capital
X Y X X
Miss Neville Taylor Gherardi OF
Washington, who released the carrier
| dent at the moment the new aircraft
carrier Saratoga started down the
| launching ways, is a direct descendant
| of Gen. Daniel Morgan, hero of the
| battle of Saratoga. Her grandfather
the late Rear Admiral Harry Clay
Taylor, U. S. N, As years ago com
manded the sloop -of-war Saratoga,
the third ship of that name in the
American Navy Her father. Capt
| Walter r Gherardi, L. S. N, who is