Word: papen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elaborately friendly, Premier Edouard Herriot of France (who speaks German) and Chancellor Franz von Papen of Germany (who speaks French?see p. 16) strolled about arm in arm, taking each other's measure...
...above placid Lac Leman, but in suburban Ouchy at the water's brim, in the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Beau-Rivage. Around an oblong table the delegates of 14 nations* faced each other with a great calm. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, Premier Edouard Herriot, Chancellor Franz von Papen and the rest knew that their action must be to postpone action, adopt a temporary European moratorium and lay plans for drawing the U. S. into general cancellation of Reparations & Debts-after the U. S. elections next November...
...Papen. Since this was the first appearance of Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen at a conference with a really big C.† the new German Chancellor was the focus of world attention at Lausanne last week. Soon cables carried the news that the titular head of Germany's reactionary "Cabinet of Monocles"- is not nearly so domineering as expected, in fact is not domineering at all. London newspapers which recently scare-headed EX-SPY BECOMES GERMAN CHANCELLOR could not deny last week that Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen speaks with a soft intonation, sits for minutes at a time...
While shutters clicked Chancellor von Papen offered a light to Premier Herriot and a movietone recorded a chat between them and Prime Minister Mac-Donald in the garden of the Beau-Rivage. Later, lenses caught von Papen in his bathing suit, stepping into Lac Leman. Meanwhile his retinue of 60 Germans (one of the largest delegations) denied by the hour that the "Cabinet of Monocles" has any intention of promoting a Dictatorship or a Monarchist restoration in Germany...
Chancellor von Papen: "Reparations have become abhorrent. Experience excludes the possibility of recommencing payments. Reparations do not reconstruct, they destroy...