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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...
Under that system the Republic has been ruled for just over two years not primarily by the Reichstag but by Presidential decrees drafted and administered by Herr von Hindenburg's hand-picked protégé, Chancellor Heinrich Brüning. He, a pale, ascetic, tremendously hard-working bachelor soon won greater world esteem than any German diplomat since the late, great Dr. Stresemann. Throughout Germany last week the President's abrupt act in kicking his protege back into obscurity produced an impression never before associated with the name of HINDENBURG?symbol of Loyalty and Duty...
...Socialist Party supported Hindenburg, assured his re-election (TIME, April 18). Last week the famed and moderate Socialist Vorwärts said: "If the President had really considered a change of Government necessary and had acted accordingly he could not be reproached. But the way in which Dr. Brüning and his Cabinet, personally devoted to the President, were overthrown has profoundly altered in the widest circles the image of the man von Hindenburg. In the eyes of the German people it has clouded that image...
...confidence and first showed his strength earlier this year by maneuvering out of office his immediate superior, Defense Minister General Wilhelm Groener. Last week General von Schleicher was credited with having made the President believe that "the army could not be depended on in a crisis with Dr. Brüning as Chancellor...
...Chamberlain to His Holiness Pope Pius XI, though he comes of a family rich for generations, and though he owns Germania, newsorgan of the Catholic Centre Party, he was promptly expelled from the latter's ranks on assuming the Chancellorship. Other Catholic Centrists sympathized with Catholic Centrist Dr. Brüning. When Chancellor von Papen attempted to call on Dr. Brüning he was not admitted, was curtly told that the former Chancellor was "in bed suffering from nervous heart attack...