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...rumored that wily German Ambassador Franz von Papen (see p. 102) had tried to save his own foxy countenance by requesting a token shipment of 2,500 tons of chrome at once. But this contract, with its never-never quality, was the best that Germany could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Faces Made and Lost | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

...German Military Attaché Franz von Papen was expelled from the U.S. for plotting an invasion of Canada, suborning disloyal Germans and Irishmen, blowing up ships, docks, munitions factories, and workingmen with an inept abandon that even a foreign government's official spy is not permitted to indulge. Ever since then, Americans have followed Papen's activities with a somewhat surreptitious personal interest-like that taken in a classmate who was expelled from school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: It Shouldn't Happen to a Papen | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

...always been easy to follow Papen. The sartorially perfect diplomat, who (in everything but integrity) much resembles a Prussian Anthony Eden, has been seen largely in tantalizing glimpses, shooting precipitately through the trap doors of Europe's high-political underworld. Last week Hungarian Newshawk Tibor Koeves brought these glimpses together to produce the first full-length biography of Papen in English. His book helped explain the connection between the shadowy circles in which Papen moves and the shadowy circles under his eyes. It also explained in part the chemistry of that strange political amalgam: Junker aristocrats with Nazi riffraff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: It Shouldn't Happen to a Papen | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

From Ankara, New York Times Correspondent Ray Brock cabled that, on the day when Germany attacked Russia, Germany's wily Ambassador to Turkey Franz von Papen had proposed to the British Ambassador that Britain stop fighting and join Germany against the Soviet Union. Last week from Ankara came word that Herr von Papen and friends were still plugging peace hard, through U.S. and other middlemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Peace | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

...when in 1933 Adolf Hitler climbed into power. Dr. Rieth stayed on in Vienna, was soon knee-deep in Nazi intrigue. After the assassination by Nazi gunmen of Austria's brave little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, Minister Rieth was recalled to Berlin, replaced by his good friend Franz von Papen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Unwelcome Guest | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

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