Word: papen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average German, whatever his other opinions of the von Schleicher-Papen régime, was behind them 100% in their determination to put an end to political assassination. By linking himself definitely with the condemned, Handsome Adolf lost enormous influence in the Reich. His second message was no more tactful...
...Herr von Papen, your bloody objectivity does not exist for me. I am not suited to become the executioner of patriotic fighters for freedom. . . . Heaven may send us torture upon torture but our movement will be able to finish this guillotine government...
...appeared from nowhere about two years ago, rapidly rose to be Fascist deputy, editor of the party organ and one of the right-hand men of Adolf Hitler. Herr Hitler attended Dr. Goebbels' wedding last winter. Fortnight ago when the Nazis were venting their rage at the von Papen Cabinet, tart-tongued Goebbels coined the bon mot of the week at the expense of General von Schleicher: "Bayonets may be good for lots of things, but one cannot sit on them forever." The quotation that caused his muzzling last week was angrier and not so funny. Writing of the Beuthen...
...might have been postponed for a month. It was not, and the results are still successful from the Government's point of view. Faced with the necessity of going before a hostile Reichstag, last week they tried another showdown. There were many Cabinet conferences, then lean Chancellor Franz von Papen went down to Münster to make a speech before the Westphalian Peasants' Congress. He minced no words. First came an attack on Handsome Adolf for his manifesto on the Beuthen death sentences (see above...
Then came his bid for popularity, his effort to win approval for the drastic measures the "Cabinet of Monocles" has been taking. Chancellor von Papen presented a One-Year Plan to revive German industry and relieve unemployment. Basis of the plan was the belief he shares with Herbert Hoover that Depression is really over...