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...Washington will largerly one for supervision to secure uniformity of policy. . . Its functions will be conducted under the same officers as at present, but their duties will be less administrative and more supervisory." This is taken to mean that Roy Asa Haynes will become even more of a figurehead than he has been and that General Andrews will be in virtual charge...
...your issue of May 4, Page 8, third column, about Germany you say: "Hindenburg is the figurehead of the German Reich (the last word, still retained, means Empire...
Today, President Field Marshal von Hindenburg is the figurehead of the German Reich (the last word, still retained, means Empire), wielding power comparable to but less extensive than that of the French President. He has sworn to uphold the Constitution, and, after hearing of his election, said: "The people must not imagine I shall let myself be steered by any party." But he will be the symbol of Monarchy and as such can be counted upon with certainty on rallying still more Germans to the cause of Monarchism. The first blow has been struck for the return of the Monarchy...
...only fireworks in the inaugural ceremonies at Washington, carefully planned to achieve economy and sedateness, were the speech and actions of Vice President Dawes. Instead of accepting the office with all the customary trite mouthings of the nation's highest-paid figurehead, he wound up carefully and clipped the corner of the senatorial plate with a simply fiendish accuracy...
...Winter, but His Majesty declared: "My place is at home." He hates to desert what Poet Kipling recently called the "H. M. S. Britain," especially at a time when Parliament is in session and there are many questions to occupy his mind; for, although the King is normally a figurehead, an expression of national unity, actually he wields considerable power in an advisory capacity, without, however, crossing the initiative of the Government. In other words, the King's direct powers are small; but the sum of his indirect power, exercised in a large number of ways, is so tremendous that...