Word: meissner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Der Osaf* was summoned a second time to the Presidential Palace he was bidden to sit down by Der Reichspräsident for what Germans call a "conference of four eyes"-i. e. not even a secretary was present. Called in for a moment, State Secretary Dr. Otto Meissner emerged to gasp, "Extraordinary cordiality...
...Paul sat his buxom, apple-cheeked typist. The flustered scrubwoman sat next to the President's handsome son, Lieut.-Colonel Oscar von Hindenburg, whose brunette wife, about to bear a daughter, had the hall porter on her right. A telephone girl sat with bespectacled State Secretary Dr. Otto Meissner who had very little to say. Across the table from Old Paul his well-brought-up grandchildren gravely discussed engines with the President's chauffeur. Everyone was given a pre-Christmas present. All the servants were told they could have the whole day Christmas off. Toward...
...bespectacled Monsignor's answer was of course "nein." The President ignored the Socialists (second largest) and the Communists (third largest). In his quiet study he called a fateful conference of four men whom he trusts: his son and aide Major Oskar von Hindenburg, his State Secretary Dr. Otto Meissner. his Acting Chancellor von Papen and Defense Minister-Kurt von Schleicher, the intriguing Machiavelli whose sleek, strong hand has been steadily "taming Hitler" for the past year...
...conference was to be what Germans call a "meeting of four eyes." It lasted in total secrecy, for more than an hour. Towards the end the 85-year-old President rang for his State Secretary, discreet Dr. Otto Meissner, who added fuel to the flames of curiosity by uttering the words, "Extraordinary cordiality...
...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...