Word: papen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate. Promptly the Peace Man's Foreign Office was turned over to a sabre-rattling "Pilsudski Colonel" who was once the Dictator's personal adjutant, Col. Josef Beck. In his new office Col. Beck will rattle diplomatically at Berlin's rattlers, German Chancellor Franz von Papen and German Defense Minister Kurt von Schleicher. Starting out with a soft, soothing, almost inaudible rattle last week Col. Beck declared, "Our foreign policy will remain unchanged. The change [from Zaleski to Beck] is purely a personal one." When the Polish budget was presented to the Sejm last week. Finance Minister...
...third important outcome of the elections is the rise in the Nationalist vote. This party under the leadership of Hugenberg has been supporting the Von Papen government and consequently an increase in their vote means an increase in popular approval of the present cabinet...
...Papen government has a good chance to carry on for three months more, for in the probable event that the newly-elected Reichstag does not select a ministry of its own, it will be dissolved, with the result that new elections will be ordered for sometime in February. This will give Von Papen's economic program a chance to show results. Von Papen has already achieved some success in his programs, notably a decrease in unemployment, the dropping of reparations payments for the time being, and his success in pleasing nationalist sentiment by his demand for equality in armaments...
...dictatorship or monarchy in Germany at the present time is extremely improbable, inasmuch as Von Hindenburg's influence would be strongly against proposals of this sort. What will probably happen is that both Von Hindenburg and Von Papen will present to the Reichstag when it meets in December a program of constitutional reform in a conservative direction. This program will probably provide for a conservative upper house to act as a check on the Reichstag acting in much the same way as the United States Senate or the English House of Lords. Other proposals may include raising the voting...
Profoundly disillusioned, the Cabinet of Bavarian Premier Dr. Heinrich Held dashed off a telegram to President von Hindenburg, accused Chancellor von Papen of "serious invasions into the constitutional status of all German states...