Evening star., 1932-03-11
H|NDENBURG URGES
UNITED GERMANY.
Pleads for Voters Support on
Non-PartiSan Basis
Over Radio.
nv the Associate ted Press.

BY the ASSoCldVeQ
BERLIN. March lin the first and
only speech he has made in the presi-
Dental campaign which ends on Sun
day, President Won Hindenburg appealed
last night to the German people for
support as ncn-partisan, non-political
candidate
The speech was broadcast from his
study and rebroadcast in the United
States. He justified the course he has
followed in the past seven years as
head of the nation, and asserted that
he consented to run again only after
he had convinced himself that it was
his duty to the nation.
The 94-year-old President was the old
field marshal once again when he went
on the air to ask reelection. His gruf
voice was brusque and military.
His appeal was to the entire German
electorate and not to any particular
party. ITO be the candidate of the
German nation on a non-party basis
and as such to oppse those who merely
stand for party interests, that conceive
to be my duty to the fatherland," he
said.
Hitler Not Mentioned.
Not once during his talk did he men
ton the name of Adolf Hitler, the leader
of the National Socialists, who is his
principal opponent in the voting next
Sunday But he answered two criti-
cisms that have been leveled at him by
Hitler's Nazis.
To the accusation that he was un-
faithful to the national front" in sign
ing the Young plan, the President said
he was convinced of the necessity OF
that step to gain our national liberty"
And to criticism directed against him
because he signed the emergency de-
crees which placed heavy burden on
German business and German citizens
Of all walks of life. he replied:
Last Summer We faced the question
whether to buy financial relief at the
cost of political surrender abroad or
to stand our ground as nation alone
and submit to heavy sacrifices. With
out hesitation, chose the latter course"
The old field marshal asserted that
whatever his critics might say, none OF
them could deny that he had been
motivated by fervent love Of country.
Urges United Nation.
"Our great goal can be attained only
II we unite in one true, national COM
munity," he said. Il cannot believe
strife and civil war when the supreme
task is the struggle for liberty and the
standing of the German nation"
He appealed for a rebirth of the feel
ing of union that swept the country
in 1914 and declared he was impelled
to fight for Germany by the response
bility that made me hold out in the
war until brought my troops home"
Shortly after the President had COM
pleted delivering his address from his
study, 10000 Communists maSsed in
the Sportpalast at campaign meet
ing for Ernst Thaelmann, their candi-
date for the presidency.
Within the last two weeks Theodore
Duesterberg, Nationalist candidate for
President, and Herr Hitler have held
mass meetings in the same hall. In
comparison with the Communist en-
thusiasm last night, the demonstra-
tions for them we're tame.
10000 at Soviet Rally.
The 10000 persons in the hall
stretched out their fists and swore
death to capitalism. Amid forest of
red flags and hammer -and-sickle in
sigma they pledged allegiance to So
Herr Thaelmann said that in his
radio speech President Won Hindenburg
boxed the ears of democracy.
The Communist candidate asserted
the Far Eastern problem was the
weightiest matter before the world to-
day, and he painted Soviet Russia as
the workers paradise.
If any industrial leader in Russia
managed as badly as captains of in
dustry In Germany do, they would be
sent to mad house for observation"
he said.