Word: papen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain von Rintelen, who came to England in 1926 when he fell out with Arch-Intrigant Franz von Papen, was arrested even though he is over 60, the age limit for interning enemy aliens. Styling himself a "fugitive from Naziism." Rintelen is known in England as an elderly Beau Brummel and author of a best-seller on espionage. Americans remember him as a slick spy who caused $50,000,000 worth of damage to American industry and commerce in World War I. He expressed surprise at his arrest, but decided to "take it philosophically...
...Hedin, though one-fourth Jewish, is a good friend of Adolf Hitler's, says he likes the Nazis because his books sell better in Germany since 1933. At a dinner in Stockholm's gaudy Grand Hotel in 1938, over which Explorer Hedin presided, Nazi Franz von Papen said in a speech: "When I come back to Sweden in ten years I hope to walk on German ground.'' Nobody objected...
Great Britain and France last week lent Turkey $174,000,000 (on top of $100,000,000 already lent by Great Britain). This loan for which no economic basis exists was to sweeten the defensive alliance which Nazi Ambassador Franz von Papen failed to prevent last autumn, and $100,000,000 of it is to be spent exclusively on Turkey's Army. That Army does not by the terms of the Allied treaty with Turkey have to attack Russia, but it stands ready to defend its country against Russian invasion...