25 APRIL 1925, Page 14

When Hindenburg is asked whether he agrees with the proposal

that Germany should guarantee the per- manence of her western frontier, he is still unilluminating. He answers, truly enough, that this is the business not of a President but of a Government. He does not mind saying, however—what his rival Dr. Marx also says— that the Eastern frontiers of Germany ought to be revised by negotiation. Dr, Marx, for his part, cannot conduct such a militant campaign for the Republic as he would wish, since he has to avoid offending a great many people and it would be bad business to attack personally such a popular hero as Hindenburg. In these circumstances the excitement which was expected has remained under- ground ; nobody even in Germany cares to predict the result of the election.