Word: papen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Haste in picking a new Chancellor was urgent because the German crisis had already run 14 days since the resignation of Lieut.-Colonel von Papen's "Cabinet of Monocles"; and because last week only four more days remained before the newly elected Reichstag was scheduled to meet. The thing to do, President von Hindenburg decided, was to reappoint his favorite protégé, Chancellor Franz von Papen...
Arguing the President out of this decision last week was General von Schleicher's master stroke-though he personally said little. By means best known to himself the wily General induced about half the "Cabinet of Monocles" (including von Papen) to go to the President and tell him that German public opinion had become so set against von Papen that no Cabinet could carry on with him as Chancellor. The beauty of this argument was its "naked truth"-a favorite phrase of persuasive General von Schleicher...
...Paul yielded with extreme reluctance. It hurt him to drop von Papen, his favorite, even on the advice of von Schleicher whom he trusts. In a blazingly frank press communique, Old Paul announced that he was acting "with a heavy heart. . . . I have repressed my own personal inclination to reappoint Colonel von Papen and I have commissioned Defense Minister General von Schleicher to form a new Cabinet...
...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...
...final decision was taken. A President aged 85 thinks and acts slowly. Impatient with Old Paul, Berlin's busy inside-dopesters started rumors that the President will turn Germany's Government into "a military dictatorship with General von Schleicher as Chancellor and Lieut.-Colonel von Papen as Vice Chancellor...