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Consider a selfadjoint regular Sturm-Liouville problem with a positive leading coefficient and weight function, i. e., \[ -(py')'+qy=\lambda wy \text{ on }(a,b), (A|B)(y(a),(py')(a),y(b),(py')(b))^t=0, \] with \(-\infty \leq a<b\leq\infty \), \(1/p,q,w\in L((a,b),\mathbb{R})\), \(p,w>0\) a. e. on \((a,b)\), \(A\), \(B\) are complex \(2\times 2\)-matrices with rank of \((A|B)\) equal 2 such that \(A\left(\begin{smallmatrix} 0&1\\1&0\end{smallmatrix} \right) A^*=B\left(\begin{smallmatrix} 0&1\\1&0\end{smallmatrix} \right) B^*\). The eigenvalues for \((A|B)=(K,-I)\) are denoted by \(\lambda _0(K)\leq \lambda _1(K)\leq\dots\). For \(K\in \text{SL}(2,R)\), the eigenvalues for \((A|B)=\left(\begin{smallmatrix} 1&0&0&0\\0&0&k_{12}&-k_{12}\end{smallmatrix} \right)\) and \((A|B)=\left(\begin{smallmatrix} 0&1&0&0\\0&0&-k_{21}&k_{11}\end{smallmatrix} \right)\) are denoted by \(\mu_n(K)\) and \(\nu_n(K)\), respectively. A new direct proof is given for inequalities between eigenvalues for different boundary conditions, e. g., if \(k_{11}>0\) and \(k_{12}\leq 0\), then for \(\theta\in (-\pi,\pi)\), \(\theta\neq 0\), \(\nu_0(K)\leq \lambda _0(K)<\lambda _0(e^{i\theta}K)<\lambda _0(-K) \leq \min\{\mu_0(K),\nu_1(K)\} \leq \max\{\mu_0(K),\nu_1(K)\}\leq\lambda _1(-K) <\dots\).