Word: papen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colleagues. In the 1933 election, in which the Nazis finally won, he contributed some 3,000,000 marks ($1,200,000) toward the Hitler campaign fund. In early January, 1933, at the Cologne home of one of Herr Thyssen's friends, Adolf Hitler had met Franz von Papen, onetime Chancellor, and concluded a political alliance. Old President von Hindenburg, apprised that Papen's Nationalists as well as the big industrialists were behind Hitler, gave in at last and appointed Hitler Chancellor...
Arriving in Ankara from conferences with Fuhrer Adolf Hitler and Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German Ambassador to Turkey, famed Lieut. Colonel Franz von Papen, declared: "It is quite clear what Germany is fighting for. It is to avoid a repetition of the tragedy of Versailles and to build a better Europe. It is to do away once and for all with the necessity of European nations fighting each other twice in a century to establish 'European equilibrium'.... England proposes a European Commonwealth for the future. She had had ample time since the last war to establish...
...time little Adolf finds himself in the garden of the Queen of Heartlessness, who is trying to organize a game with the King, the Deutsch Hess and others. Adolf next encounters the Mock Goebbels and the Papen. The Mock Goebbels interrupts his sobbing to recite...
...band alternating between the Internationale and the Turkish national anthem and a courteous Soviet communique announcing that the two countries still retained their friendship. Later, however, the Moscow newsorgan Izvestia ominously hinted that Turkish-Russian relations had soured. At the same time in Ankara, German Ambassador Franz von Papen entrained for Berlin, there to explain to Fiihrer Hitler why he had failed to win the Turks away from the Allies...
...Balkans. Stalin was reputedly pressing Saracoglu to agree that in any event Turkey would bar the British and French fleets from passing through the Dardanelles into the Black Sea to bolster up the Balkans. And in Ankara this same demand was vigorously made by German Ambassador Franz von Papen...