Word: papen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inspiring moment when Premier Herriot, warmly clasping Chancellor von Papen's hand exclaimed...
Under orders from Berlin, Chancellor von Papen presently called on Scot MacDonald in Lausanne. He demanded that the MacDonald-Herriot formula, if signed, should become binding immediately upon its ratification by a majority of the signatory powers. In other words France must not be permitted to keep everything in suspense until after the U. S. elections by delaying her ratification. Secondly the Chancellor declared that the German bond issue could not be for more than two billion marks, half what the Allies demanded and 1/57 of what Germany agreed to under the Young Plan. Finally von Papen demanded the writing...
Significance. Unquestionably the Fatherland was in ferment last week, the chief reason being that President von Hindenburg has called into being a Cabinet with no parliamentary majority, headed by Chancellor Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen (TIME, June 13). On July 31 Germans will elect a new Reichstag, chances being that the Fascists will emerge as the largest party but without a majority. In that unsatisfactory event the political deadlock would be so complete that a coup d'état looms distinctly possible. Last week every faction-Monarchist, Fascist, Socialist, Communist-was watching cat-like for a chance to seize...
When they had looked at a cartoon in Berlin's Socialist Vorwärts and read an article in Cologne's Catholic Volkzeitung the new German Cabinet of Chancellor Franz von Papen made formal demand upon the Prussian Government to punish both papers by suspending them for five days...
...Socialist cartoon showed brown-shirted Fascists being paid out of the Federal Treasury, which they are not. The Catholic article attacked Catholic Chancellor von Papen for his stand at Lausanne. Decision as to whether to suppress the newspapers was up to Prussian Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Karl Severing, taciturn Socialist, famed for ruthless police methods to keep order in Berlin...