Word: papen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voice tense with suppressed fury, Chancellor Franz von Papen broadcast over the government radio last week a declaration that his dictatorial and aristocratic Cabinet "corresponds to the will of the people," despite the Reichstag's vote of nonconfidence in the Cabinet 513 to 32* (TIME, Sept...
...Herr von Papen then served notice that his Cabinet proposes to revise the German constitution. Berlin rumor said that the word "republic" will be omitted. Conceivably the von Papen Cabinet, acting by presidential decree, could so alter the fundamental law of Germany as to prevent the Hitlerites, who won 14,000,000 votes in the last Reichstag election (TIME, Aug. 8), from scoring further gains. Said Satevepost correspondent Isaac Marcos-son, returning from Germany last week: "Chancellor von Papen will disenfranchise 50% of Adolf Hitler's followers if he raises the voting age, as he may, to 25 years...
...Hitlering Hitler. Since President von Hindenburg continued to back Chancellor von Papen to the limit last week, Germany's largest parties (Fascist & Socialist) were faced with the alternative of attempting a coup d'état or filing weak protests...
Fascist Speaker Wilhelm Goring of the Reichstag sued Chancellor von Papen, branding as libelous the Chancellor's assertion that the Speaker acted unconstitutionally in permitting the Reichstag to vote censure after the Chancellor had flourished a presidential decree dissolving the Reichstag. This famed decree, when scrutinized last week, proved to be in the Chancellor's handwriting except for the signature of Paul von Hindenburg. It was dated at Neudeck, the President's country estate, but von Papen had scratched out "Neudeck" and written in "Berlin," evidently feeling that he thus made the decree more legal...
...much diluted. They are nationalists and militarists, but do not believe in seizing the government for themselves. They are not openly antiSemitic, but have been described as "susceptible to anti-Semitism." The great difference is that the Stahlhelm backs, while the Nazis oppose, the Government of Chancellor Franz von Papen. Last week Hitlerites struck a foul blow. Der Angriff, Hitlerite paper of deformed, bitter little Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, published an article to prove that Col. Düsterberg, who frequently has indulged in Jew-baiting, really had a Jewish grandfather, Selig Abraham Düsterberg. According to Der Angriff...