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...favorably on the British-French antiaggression "Peace Front." Last week, in the face of this development, Adolf Hitler decided it was high time to send to Turkey a man skilled in dealing with just such a situation. He picked for the job of Reich Ambassador to Ankara Franz von Papen, a diplomatic smoothie, an international intriguer whom British Foreign Office wits call the "German specialist for political dirty work...
...Captain von Papen is remembered for his melodramatic attempts in 1914-15, when he was a military attache in Washington, to sabotage ships and arms factories serving the Allies. He was suspected of implication in the famed Black Tom explosion. Only an apprentice plotter at the time, the Captain was soon caught so red-handed that President Wilson notified the Imperial German Government that the U. S. would have no more...
Franz von Papen ended the War as a liaison officer on the Near Eastern Front. In the retreat of the Turks and Germans from Palestine he again left behind some valuable papers which fell into British hands. They, too, showed payments to U. S. agents. London was cabled for instructions. Legend has it that London replied: "Forward papers. If von Papen is captured do not intern; send him to a lunatic asylum...
...that tense last week of September." Author "Burckhardt" pictured the once All-Highest pacing up and down and throwing off such amazing indiscretions as: "There's a man alone, without family, without children, without God. Why should he be human? . . . He has got rid of, or even killed . . . Papen, Schleicher, Neurath-and even Blomberg. He has nothing left but a bunch of shirted gangsters...
Soon after the Nazi majority in the diet election of May, 1932, Bruening was forced to resign by the more extreme conservatives, to be succeeded the next winter by Fritz von Papen, who carried through Hitler's coup d'etat...