Notes

President Paul von Hindenburg received representatives of the Interdenominational Church Alliance (German Evangelicals, Catholics, Jews) who called to congratulate him upon his election to the Presidency. To them the President declared that, without a spirit of religious tolerance, the future of Germany could not be advanced. He promised to work for such tolerance.

According to Die Kreus Zeitung (most reactionary newspaper in Germany), the ex-Kaiser has founded an association of scientists to investigate the relationship between Greek and Oriental cultures.

Official circles in Berlin intimated that Germany will not reply to the arms note sent by the Allies (TIME, June 15) until after a round-table conference between Germans and the Military Control Commission has been held. The conference was scheduled for this week.

The Berlin Chief of Police decreed that inspection of meat shall in future extend to dog meat, much of which is allegedly still sold in Berlin.

All Germany sweltered in a heat wave. Many prostrations were reported. Water riots in Berlin's suburbs were narrowly averted by the happy arrival of the water.

That there is a slight physical similarity between President von Hindenburg and Prince Bismarck seems undisputed. But that there is any intellectual similarity seems equally impossible to entertain. Nevertheless, Berliners are never tired of comparing their President to the Iron Chancellor. Recently, the President's sheep dog, Rolf, took up his residence at the Presidential Palace in the Wilhelmstrasse. Berliners were reminded that Bismarck's great Dane, Tyras, once was a canine resident in the Chancellery on the same street.