Word: papen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...administered as mandates by Great Britain. France and Japan. . . . The day is not far off when Germany will also demand restoration of territories seized from her on the Continent" (Alsace-Lorraine, the Polish Corridor, parts of Upper Silesia, Eupen & Malmedy, Danzig, the Saar. etc., etc.). Chancellor von Papen wrote in Der Saar Frennd last week: "The Saar District is German and wants to remain German. . . .* Growing knowledge of the real sentiments of the Saar population leads me to hope-without indulging in illusions -that the arbitrarily created problem of the Saar may soon be solved in accordance with the wishes...
Give Back All! In Berlin the serenely provoking Chancellor received his old friend Charles A. Oberwager, the Manhattan lawyer who defended Franz von Papen in 1915 when U. S. newspapers called him a "German spy" and accused him of plotting to blow up U. S. munition plants. Lawyer Oberwager hastened to Paris and there said (presumably with his former client's permission...
...year. Its "fall" was dramatic (TIME, Aug. 1). Socialist Dr. Otto Braun who had been Premier of Prussia for eleven years was driven from power together with Socialist Minister of Interior Dr. Karl Severing. Cartooning them as Adam & Eve, Kladderadatsch ("Slapbang"), famed German comic weekly, pictured Chancellor Franz von Papen (who did the ousting by presidential decree) as a Biblical angel with a flaming sword. Last week Angel von Papen drew his sword again in earnest, swished it ominously, announced that his "Cabinet of Monocles" will carve up and partition the Free State of Prussia-which is approximately two-thirds...
...highly centralized rule with all reins held tightly at Berlin-just as Paris holds the reins of France. In the French Republic there are no "States," free or otherwise, but only "departments."' Germany teems with "free states" such as Prussia and "free cities" such as Hamburg. Angel von Papen has been whittling, little by little, into German states' rights almost from the moment he became Chancellor (TIME, June...
Four days later Chancellor von Papen, acting for President von Hindenburg, issued decrees partitioning Prussia into approximately the same "provinces" which existed in 1807-when Prussia was conquered by Napoleon, Emperor of the French...