Word: papen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...burned so many papers that they set fire to the consulate. As the Germans had locked themselves in for privacy, the firemen found themselves locked out. Ankara's swank Karpic Restaurant was the scene of an embarrassing incident. Just as slick German Ambassador (and Spy-Master) Franz von Papen entered, the orchestra was beating out Pistol Packin-Mama. With truly Turkish tact, it slid with few fumbles into the Merry Widow Waltz...
...Papen moved out of the Czechoslovak legation where he had lived for four years, went home. Within minutes his servants were knocking at other embassy doors, hunting jobs, and explaining that they would never act as German spies. Also making the rounds was Czech Representative Milos Hanak, explaining that now he hoped he would get his legation back...
...also a fact that Turkey's Ambassador to Berlin had come home, would not go back to Germany. But Hitler's envoy, wily Franz von Papen, instead of racing for Berlin, canceled a vacation, hotfooted to Ankara for a last-minute, bootless talk with Turkey's Premier and Foreign Minister, Sükrü Saracoglu. This move also gave Papen a chance to burn some papers, pack his bags...
First Light. When Moscow published the British denial, the Russian press took pains to couple the item with an otherwise innocuous Ankara dispatch to the London Sunday Times (no relation to the Times of London). This report said that Ambassador Franz von Papen asked the Turks, two months ago, to relay a German proposal that the Wehrmacht voluntarily retreat to prewar boundaries in the west, in return get a "limited free hand in the east." The Sunday Times said that the Turks refused to act, and that nothing came of Ribbentrop's advances. But Russians, reading about it, were...
...world; with the rondo movement of German Junkers and industrialists to seize world markets. Naziism was nourished and adopted by Army men like embittered, ever-dreaming General Erich Ludendorff, industrialists like Fritz Thyssen and Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, businessmen like Helmuth Wohlthat, Junkers like Franz von Papen...