Word: papen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Papen's Dream. Exceedingly ingenious and in the trickiest tradition of European diplomacy, the MacDonald-Herriot formula appeared to settle everything while actually settling nothing. It fitted the U. S. State Department's demand that Europe must reach a final settlement of Reparations without reference to War Debts, yet if the next U. S. President and Congress prove reluctant to cancel all or part of what Europe owes, the Allies or any one of them can regain a completely free hand, merely by failing to ratify the MacDonald-Herriot formula...
Diplomatically speaking the formula was a masterpiece. But would Germany sign? The decision was not really up to Chancellor von Papen at Lausanne, but to his "Cabinet of Monocles" at Berlin, dominated by intriguing Lieut.-General Kurt von Schleicher, Minister of Defense. Last week the Government spokesman at Berlin made the Chancellor look like a figurehead, and a silly one at that, by flatly disclaiming von Papen's amazing proposal at Lausanne for a Franco-German military alliance (TIME, July 4). "The Chancellor," snapped the spokesman, "was only voicing a personal dream...
Certainly President Wilson demanded his recall, certainly the French accused him of "spying'' in the Netherlands in 1916. But the formal U. S. indictment charging Franz von Papen with fomenting sabotage and attempts to blow up Canada's Welland Canal was quashed early this year, along with a batch of other Wartime indictments. Evidence against von Papen was supplied chiefly by British operatives, perhaps not above crediting falsehoods against a German in time of war. What most aroused U. S. public opinion at the time was the revelation that Franz von Papen once wrote a private letter in which...
Devoutly Catholic and with highly placed Catholic friends (even in France), Franz von Papen became to all appearances a rich, regular and unexciting member of the German Catholic Centre Party, the party led today by ex-Chancellor Heinrich BrÜning. When President von Hindenburg dropped BrÜning, who had been his protege, the German military camarilla which had maneuvered BrÜning out suggested von Papen to the ancient President, who made him his new protege...
...That von Papen is the creature of the camarilla headed by his Minister of Defense, Lieut.-General Kurt von Schleicher, few Germans doubted last week. They remembered however that Dr. BrÜning, utterly obscure when first appointed, grew in the 26 months that he was Chancellor into a figure commanding vast respect and not a little liking throughout Europe. Camarilla or no camarilla, intrigue or no intrigue, the German Chancellor today is Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen. Through his bony fingers pass the affairs of a Great Power. In Switzerland last week he seemed to be finding himself, seemed...