Word: papen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history. Simplifying the returns, it means that the Nazis and other Right Wing Parties will have a total of 277 seats. The Socialists and other Left Wing Parties will muster 241 seats not counting the all-important group of 89 Communists. European observers saw no reason for Chancellor von Papen to resign his Government, felt that the unexpected strength of the Socialist and Communist vote would bind him to milder utterances and a more moderate foreign policy unless he and Minister of Defense von Schleicher attempt to rule by open dictatorship...
...morning after election day Nazi papers loudly demanded just such a move. It seemed unlikely that the "Cabinet of Monocles" would comply. Those 89 Communists represent over 5,000,000 voters of a very dangerous temper. The Communist Deputies will be extremely useful to Herr von Papen from time to time in keeping the Hitlerites in their place. That being so, the balance of power last week was in the thin, capable hands of ascetic former Chancellor Heinrich Brüning. His personal party, the Catholic Centrists, had made good their campaign slogan "Back to Büning...
...elation reflected in Hitlerite circles yesterday with von Papen's coup, today turned to gloom with the realization that they are unlikely to replace von Papen and General von Schleicher in power after the July 31 elections. . . . One of Hitler's lieutenants told me: 'Von Papen is picking all the plums and reaping all the glory that in reality belong...
...only a week off and the Republic's bravest champion, pale ascetic former Chancellor Bruning, was vigorously campaigning, attracting the most enthusiastic crowds he has had in years wherever he spoke. Left-wing Socialists, his adversaries for years, were ready to vote for him to stop either von Papen or Hitler. Most observers rated his chances slim for next week, but by no means out of the German political picture...
Adolf Hitler has certainly gained more than 26 seats' worth of votes since, but dopesters found the figures practically useless as a gauge for next week since the men in the saddle, the von Papen Junkers, have no vote-getting political organization at all, and will prove unwilling to hand the Chancellorship to handsome Adolf should all their followers vote...