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...Papen? In Berlin the intrigue which moved President von Hindenburg to oust Dr. Brüning 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...
...there is no minister, excepting Dr. Warmbold, who has ever held a Cabinet portfolio before; no representative of German labor or the trade unions; no member of either the Socialist Party or the Fascist Party, respectively largest and next-largest in the Reichstag. To cap the climax President von Hindenburg appointed as Germany's new Chancellor notorious Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen. English editors promptly splashed out the screamer EX-SPY BECOMES GERMAN CHANCELLOR...
Intimates of President von Hindenburg advanced a remarkable hypothesis. They suggested that Old Paul had never heard of von Papen's recall from the U. S. on Dec. 10, 1915 by the Imperial German Government at the urgent request of President Wilson. Very likely Der Feldmarschall was too busy in April 1916 trying to win the War to read of the U. S. indictment charging Military Attaché von Papen of the Imperial German Embassy in Washington with conspiracy to blow up Canada's Welland Canal...
Meanwhile officials of the Socialist Party had informed President von Hindenburg that they could see no valid reason for his having dropped Dr. Brüning. Rumors that the Cabinet of Monocles favored "deliberate inflation" sent stocks & bonds zooming on the Berlin Exchange...
Parliamentary experts told the Chancellor that if he dared to face the Reichstag his Cabinet would be overwhelmingly defeated. Therefore Protege von Papen asked Patron von Hindenburg to dissolve the Reichstag, which he obligingly did. Within 60 days a new Reichstag must be elected?but in less than ten days Germany must send a delegation to the Lausanne Conference, which all the world hopes will untangle Reparations, War Debts and German private debts...