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When the Ministers of Interior trooped home without committing themselves, Fascist fury began to show itself openly for the first time against Chancellor von Papen and his "Cabinet of Monocles," hitherto tolerated as better than the Br??ning Cabinet (TIME, June 13). "This Government," exploded Der Angriff, Berlin organ of Herr Hitler, "has nothing to do with the Fascist Party! It has out-Br??ninged Br??ning in issuing oppressive decrees. These last are hammer blows on the backs of a starving people...
...Papen? In Berlin the intrigue which moved President von Hindenburg to oust Dr. Br??ning and appoint Lieut.-Colonel von Papen was universally ascribed to swank Lieut.-General Kurt von Schleicher, a model officer of the Imperial Army type, his bullet head fashionably clipped...
...confidence and first showed his strength earlier this year by maneuvering out of office his immediate superior, Defense Minister General Wilhelm Groener. Last week General von Schleicher was credited with having made the President believe that "the army could not be depended on in a crisis with Dr. Br??ning as Chancellor...
...Privy Chamberlain to His Holiness Pope Pius XI, though he comes of a family rich for generations, and though he owns Germania, newsorgan of the Catholic Centre Party, he was promptly expelled from the latter's ranks on assuming the Chancellorship. Other Catholic Centrists sympathized with Catholic Centrist Dr. Br??ning. When Chancellor von Papen attempted to call on Dr. Br??ning he was not admitted, was curtly told that the former Chancellor was "in bed suffering from nervous heart attack...
Meanwhile officials of the Socialist Party had informed President von Hindenburg that they could see no valid reason for his having dropped Dr. Br??ning. Rumors that the Cabinet of Monocles favored "deliberate inflation" sent stocks & bonds zooming on the Berlin Exchange...