Word: junker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Monocles? Junker Cabinet of Monocles is too apt a 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...
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...
Return of Brüning. There is one way that the Nationalist groups can have a parliamentary majority without dissolving the Reichstag: they might force the Junker Cabinet to declare the Communist Party outlaw, thus throwing out 89 Deputies and giving the Right Wing a working majority of 36. The morning after election day Nazi papers loudly demanded just such a move. It seemed unlikely that the "Cabinet of Monocles" would comply. Those 89 Communists represent over 5,000,000 voters of a very dangerous temper. The Communist Deputies will be extremely useful to Herr von Papen from time...
Yellow, smiling Kurt von Schleicher, moving spirit of Germany's Junker Cabinet, was not at all ruffled by election returns last week. Calmly he proceeded with his plans to reorganize the entire Prussian State Government, fill all offices with militarists...