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Next day Tägliche Rundschau, the news-organ closest to Chancellor von Schleicher. carried surprising news of a conference in Cologne the night before between two Germans who a few weeks ago were bitter foes and have since been shelved by the sure, soft hand of the Chancellor. The former foes, Adolf Hitler and ex-Chancellor Franz von Papen, conferred for an hour and a half. According to the plot-hatching Chancellor's own newspaper, they conferred for the purpose of hatching a plot to oust von Schleicher...
...maturing; there is as yet no serious obstruction in sight. Puffing comfortably on a large pale cigar, he admitted a group of correspondents to his office last week and delivered himself of a few random observations. As everyone knows, smiling General von Schleicher has a high opinion of Republican ex-Chancellor Brüning's character and ability. Privately he has no such regard for his present political ally, bristle-lipped Adolf Hitler. Subtly as the great Metternich whom he so much admires, General von Schleicher expressed these ideas last week...
Devoutly Catholic and with highly placed Catholic friends (even in France), Franz von Papen became to all appearances a rich, regular and unexciting member of the German Catholic Centre Party, the party led today by ex-Chancellor Heinrich Br�ning. When President von Hindenburg dropped Br�ning, who had been his protege, the German military camarilla which had maneuvered Br�ning out suggested von Papen to the ancient President, who made him his new protege...
...Passed by a decent majority of 38 and sent to the House of Lords Chancellor Philip Snowden's long debated budget bill carrying payments ("doles") to the unemployed of more than $1,100,000 per day. The usual cat-&-dog fight between Chancellor Snowden and ex-Chancellor Winston Churchill was avoided when the latter statesman shifted from direct attack to drawling, honeyed words. "How pleasant it must be," he remarked, "for the Chancellor to see the fruits of the Labor Government's policy so speedily mature" (a reference to the fact that with 1,800.000 unemployed, Great Britain...
...Ex-Chancellor Churchill, caught aback, waved a deprecatory hand: "Of course I am not imputing incorrect motives, but only temperamental motives...