REICHSTAG FLOOR LEADER BELIEVES GERMAN FEDERAL EAGLE IS 'TOO UGLY'
Berlin (JFK+50) On June 11, 1925, Associated Press reports that the Nationalist Reichstag floor leader George Schultz believes the federal eagle on Germany's coat-of-arms* is "too ugly."
Herr Schultz said...
"It is high time that the present federal eagle...be supplanted by an eagle with talons and a sharp beak."
Schultz is not the only critic of the German federal eagle, however, as others have compared it to be "a cross between an eagle and a rooster."
*The Coat-of-Arms of the German Weimar Republic was in use from 1919 to 1935. It was reintroduced and adopted by the Federal Republic of Germany in 1950.
SOURCE
"German Federal Eagle Needs Talons And a Sharp Beak," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., June 11, 1925, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
