Word: papen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was the basic problem, highlighted by the massing of new German troops in the Balkans. Under such a threat the trial of two Russians for the attempted assassination of Ambassador Franz von Papen had proceeded with scrupulous honesty and little conclusive evidence. The Turks resented Russian press attacks and bullying demands that the defendants be released. But, like Ambassador Steinhardt's search for new wineglasses, the trial was incidental to bigger things. For in the spring of 1942 Turkey looked farther ahead. When & if the belligerents exhausted themselves Turkey's now neutral army might well...
...return to Berlin after an Istanbul visit, beamed to reporters: "You can write that I return to Berlin smiling. I am particularly satisfied that my return was delayed a few days to enable me to talk once again with my close friend and colleague [German Ambassador] Franz von Papen...
...Last year German Ambassador Franz von Papen told Turkey: "You have nothing to fear so long as I am here." Last week Ambassador von Papen was not there, but on his way to Germany. With him was King Boris of Bulgaria. Turkish Ambassador to Germany R. Husrev Gerede had returned to Turkey...
...long and devious career foxy old Franz von Papen has been frequently hunted. In 1932, when he was Germany's Chancellor, a suspicious-looking Mrs. Paul Budde was arrested in the Chancellery with a twelve-inch dagger concealed on her person. In 1934 Papen was on Adolf Hitler's purge list, but was saved by German Army guards sent to his home by the late General Werner von Fritsch. By 1935 Papen had proved his usefulness to Adolf Hitler as Minister to Austria, but Austrian Nazis tried several times to obliterate the Minister. In 1937 Papen...
...knocked the Ambassador and Frau von Papen flat on the asphalt pavement. It blew the trousers off the Ambassador. It blew another man entirely to pieces-probably the man who had carried the bomb-and spattered his blood as far as the Papens...