Word: papen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sense" but. . . . Chancellor von Papen, recently suspected of an intent to place the Free State of Prussia under the rule of a "Federal Commissioner" (TIME, June 20) agreed over the telephone to a peculiar settlement of that issue last week. The Fascists, though they have a plurality in the Prussian Diet and are therefore entitled by tradition to expect that the other parties will join in electing a Fascist Premier of Prussia, agreed last week that Socialist Dr. Otto Braun may remain Prussian Premier without opposition until the Federal election June...
Trust Gulped. Reactionary though he is, Lieut. -Colonel von Papen sanctioned last week the highly radical step of absorbing the German coal, iron & steel trust V. S. (Vcreinigte Stahlwerke A. G.) into the Government at one fell gulp...
...confiscation but purchase was, naturally, the method. The Government rushed to buy because Chancellor von Papen and his colleagues feared that unless they acted promptly V. S. would be bought for a song by the French munitions interests controlled by secretive, powerful Eugene Schneider...
...control to certain Dutch banks. Last week Patriot Flick sold his remaining interest to the Fatherland for "much less" than the French have been offering, received a mere 100 million marks ($23,820,000). The Dutch end of the deal was quietly arranged. For good or evil, Chancellor von Papen must go down in history as the man who while absent in Switzerland brought under German Government control last week more than two-fifths of the Fatherland's production of pig iron and rolled steel and nearly one-sixth of its coal and iron ore mining industry...
...Papen. Born in 1879 at Werl in Prussia, Franz von Papen became a "career officer'' in the Imperial German Army. He married the niece of a French Marquis from the Sarr Basin (then German, now governed by a League of Nations commission). From his wife the Prussian officer learned to speak almost perfect French. In Washington, where von Papen was German Military Attache when the War opened, both she and he were popular...