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Down the Wilhelmstrasse, into the German Chancellery went bristle-lipped Adolf Hitler last week. He was led into the former office of the late great Bismarck. Seated at the Iron Chancellor's old desk, his soft white hands folded before him, sat aged President Paul von Hindenburg. Near him stood smooth, grey Chancellor Franz von Papen and the State Secretary of the Reich, Dr. Otto Meissner...
President von Hindenburg hoisted his old frame half out of his chair...
...against Poland, France's ally, and he would break Germany's close business and financial arrangements with Russia. Also he would hold down Hitler. The rest is open news. Von Schleicher returned to Berlin, set his cabal against republican Chancellor Briining in motion, won over President von Hindenburg and set up his Junker "Cabinet of Monocles" under smartly groomed Lieut. Colonel Franz von Papen, his military subordinate...
...saturation point. German Republicans feel that it is really on the downgrade, pointed out last week that three months ago there must have been thousands of Germans who would have voted for Hitlerite Deputies when they would not vote for Adolf Hitler in opposition to the National Hero VON HINDENBURG...
...gamble of the first magnitude ... an amazing act of resolution for a man of von Hindenburg's great age to have staked all in making von Papen?an untried man?dictator just to keep Hitler from power...