Word: papen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This statement of course is factual, but Grandmother Zetkin went on: "I demand the impeachment of President von Hindenburg for violation of the German Constitution! . . . Despite its all-powerful character, the [von Papen] Cabinet has failed miserably to solve domestic and foreign problems. . . . The best means to overcome the economic crisis is proletarian revolution! ... I open this Reichstag in fulfillment of my duty as senior member. I hope to live to see the day when, as senior member, I can open the first workers' and peasants' congress of Soviet Germany...
Sleek, soft-spoken Chancellor Franz von Papen, whose most violent gesture is frequently to take off and twirl his eyeglasses, thunderstruck the world last week by a series of provocative acts, all performed with utmost urbanity...
Blow at Britain. Quietly upping a long list of German tariff schedules by decree. Chancellor von Papen choked off Great Britain's chief exports to the Reich, notably textiles, the duty on which he raised...
Within 20 hours the British Government retaliated by decreeing similar prohibitive duties which choked off German exports of gloves and sausages to Britain. In the White House, worried President Hoover wondered what to do about prohibitive duties imposed by the von Papen decree on cash registers, typewriters and other office equipment of which the U. S. normally exports to Germany some $6,000,000 worth per year...
Reminder to France. Next von Papen sent an ultimatum to France, discreetly conveyed in the form of an aide-mémoire handed by German Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath to French Ambassador Andre Frangois-Poncet in Berlin. This little reminder merely asked that France consent to revision of the Treaty of Versailles in such fashion as to give Germany a war strength equal...