Word: papen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris Matin released officially-inspired rumors that the two Premiers had reached sufficient agreement to present a united Franco-British front to Germany. As the German Delegation left Berlin, Chancellor von Papen's position was that Germany can pay nothing more in Reparations and cannot even accept an extension of the Hoover Moratorium, under which the principle of German payment is upheld by having the Reich pay comparatively small sums into the Bank for International Settlements which are then re-loaned to Germany. The German demand to be presented at Lausanne was for total cancellation of Reparations with...
...force the Free State of Prussia back under direct rule by the German Government seemed the bold design last week of Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen, bristling Chancellor of the Fatherland's reactionary "Cabinet of Monocles" (TIME, June 13). In the old days when Wilhelm II was both German Emperor and King of Prussia the two cabinets were of course interlocked. Therefore the Fatherland seethed with monarchist rumors as Chancellor von Papen put the screws on Prussia. This he did by abruptly forbidding a payment of 100,000,000 marks ($23,700,000) from the German Treasury...
...face of things the Hitlerites should win the coming Reichstag election as they won the election for the Prussian Diet (TIME, May 2), but last week an astonishing prediction was made from a source close to General von Schleicher and Baron von Gayl. Prediction: "The von Papen Cabinet will last from three to four years...
...Battlecry of Reaction." The new Cabinet's declaration of policy was called throughout Germany a battle cry of reaction. Declaring that "postWar German Governments have weakened the morale of the people by a system of State Socialism" including the dole, Chancellor von Papen declared that "this moral degeneration was enhanced by the class struggle with Bolshevism which, like a corroding poison, threatens to destroy our moral code...
...There must be a showdown!" cried Chancellor von Papen, then proposed somewhat vaguely to "force the building of a new Germany on the basis of the unchanging principles of Christianity...