Word: papen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Signs multiplied this week that the formation of Adolf Hitler's long-promised European Federation was close at hand: > In Ankara German Ambassador Franz von Papen told a correspondent that Germany would make a strong bid for peace with Great Britain as soon as the "decisive phase" of the Russian campaign was over...
...Turkish Army searchlight, poking its white eye into the garden of the German Embassy one night last week, disclosed a daughter of German Ambassador Franz von Papen in the arms of a secretary of the Italian Embassy. Next day Ambassador von Papen, who had been watching the searchlight practice for professional reasons, packed his daughter off to Berlin, had her lover sacked...
...crush at a Turkish People's Party ball the brocaded dress of Mrs. George Eric Mexia O'Donnell, wife of the British Naval Attaché, gaffed the brocaded gown of Frau Franz von Papen, wife of the German Ambassador. Held tight, in the boomps-a-daisy position, the ladies waited in stony silence until a Turkish protocol officer uncoupled them...
Bruening was succeeded by Franz von Papen, who in turn paved the way for Hitler. To the last, the scholarly bachelor protested against the Nazi mass-appeal he abhorred and could not understand: "The tendency to regard politics from the emotional viewpoint . . . must never get the upper hand of cool deliberation or there will be an end to Germany...
Author Koeves is constantly torn between his desire to prove that Papen is a fool and his demonstration that he is satanically clever. To Author Koeves Franz von Papen may sometimes seem stupid. But to himself Franz von Papen must seem quite a success-at least as successful as the Abbe Sieyes, who, when asked: "What did you do in the French Revolution?," replied: "I survived...