Word: papen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Premier Dr. Christian Schmitt of Baden. Bending over a small table, so that their heads nearly touched, South Germany's spokesmen drafted a long, tart telegram to President von Hindenburg, himself a Prussian. Whatever its ultimate effect, the immediate result of this wire was to make the von Papen Cabinet shorten their reactionary sails and steer a more cautious course...
...made a bid for confidence by admitting, "I am a monarchist by tradition and conviction." Then he ringingly declared, "But I will allow no doubt that I shall be faithful to the oath of allegiance to the [Republican] Constitution that I swore before President von Hindenburg! Moreover Chancellor von Papen and the other ministers are in agreement with...
...days later Lieut.-Colonel von Papen, sleekly groomed for the occasion, made his first formal address as Chancellor to the equally sleek Agricultural Council, central body of German Junkers (landed aristocrats). Mindful of the warning from South Germany, he pledged his Cabinet to "adhere to the framework of the [Republican] Constitution," but he raised loudest hochs by exclaiming: "The unprecedented spiritual and material situation of the German people requires liberation from the chains of party politics and unification of all forces for the rebirth of Germany...
This speech rekindled South German fears. To President von Hindenburg rushed the three South German premiers led by Bavaria's Held. They were received with Chancellor von Papen present. Mincing no words Dr. Held threatened to arrest any official who might be sent from Berlin to interfere in Bavaria's affairs, accused Chancellor von Papen of intending to force upon Prussia as the head of that state a Federal commissioner. Dr. Held also denounced Baron von Gayl's complimentary reference to Adolf Hitler's Storm Troops, declared that whatever the Federal Government might do the Bavarian...
...immediate crisis was expected, since Chancellor von Papen and the leading members of his Cabinet had to depart for the Lausanne Conference. Meanwhile the Prussian Free State struggled heroically to balance its budget, raised a forced loan by levying on the salaries of State employes, succeeded in obtaining credits from certain friendly Berlin banks. Correspondents agreed that intra-German relations have never been more strained since the founding of the Republic...