Word: gayl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next most objectionable to Colonel von Papen in Germany is his former Minister of Interior, Baron von Gayl who is everywhere suspected of having urged the "Cabinet of Monocles" to scrap the Republican Constitution and restore Hohenzollern rule. Last week Chancellor von Schleicher avoided re-appointing Baron von Gayl, did reappoint in his Cabinet most other members of the "Cabinet of Monocles." The new slate...
...phrase to discard. The members all act like Junkers; they look as if they should wear monocles. Actually none of them do, and only one member is a true Junker in the narrowest sense: a Protestant landowner from East Prussia, Minister of the Interior Baron Wilhelm von Gayl...
Relations. Sly General von Schleicher had reasons for selecting Baron von Gayl and Lieut. Colonel von Papen. The smooth von Papen married the niece of a French Marquis. He speaks almost perfect French. He has many French friends and much money invested in French concerns. Baron von Gayl is descended from an Andreas Gail of Cologne, ennobled about 1390, one branch of whose descend ants went to France, while the others moved east to Prussia and the Polish border. The French branch of the family still exists; the French army contains a General Baron Jean de Gail...
Weimar Obsequies. Last week Junker von Gayl officiated at the strangest birthday party the German Republic has had in its 13 hard-pressed years. As Minister of the Interior he was expected to make the leading address at the annual celebration of the adoption of the Weimar Constitution. It was his duty and he did it. In the Reichstag chamber a polite audience of diplomats, generals, bureaucrats and their wives gazed at a platform banked with mournful purple hydrangeas. Minister von Gayl never once mentioned the word "republic" and to the Weimar Constitution, object of the ceremony, he tossed...
...putsch under the German Constitution. Embarrassed judges pondered over the week-end and then, to the surprise of few, decided in favor of the Cabinet. Even so, Chancellor von Papen was not quite sure enough of himself to offend the southern provinces unnecessarily. With Minister of the Interior von Gayl he hurried to Stuttgart, assured the Premiers of Bavaria and Baden that he had no intention of abolishing their states' rights, that martial law in Prussia was an emergency measure entirely and would probably be lifted "in a few days." Fervently he promised to abide by the results...