Word: papen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Papen? In Berlin the intrigue which moved President von Hindenburg to oust Dr. Brüning and appoint Lieut.-Colonel von Papen was universally ascribed to swank Lieut.-General Kurt von Schleicher, a model officer of the Imperial Army type, his bullet head fashionably clipped...
...Cabinet portfolio before; no representative of German labor or the trade unions; no member of either the Socialist Party or the Fascist Party, respectively largest and next-largest in the Reichstag. To cap the climax President von Hindenburg appointed as Germany's new Chancellor notorious Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen. English editors promptly splashed out the screamer EX-SPY BECOMES GERMAN CHANCELLOR...
Intimates of President von Hindenburg advanced a remarkable hypothesis. They suggested that Old Paul had never heard of von Papen's recall from the U. S. on Dec. 10, 1915 by the Imperial German Government at the urgent request of President Wilson. Very likely Der Feldmarschall was too busy in April 1916 trying to win the War to read of the U. S. indictment charging Military Attaché von Papen of the Imperial German Embassy in Washington with conspiracy to blow up Canada's Welland Canal...
...Cabinet intriguing General von Schleicher appears as Minister of Defense. He is credited with completely dominating Chancellor von Papen. Germans, noting four barons in the new Government and that all its members are "high born," promptly nicknamed them the "Cabinet of Monocles...
Chancellor?Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen...