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...needed to make Adam's apples bob in Austrian throats. Also at the snuggery, panicky Austrians learned, was the German who was suspected in the U. S. during the War of implication in the Black Tom explosion, the master schemer and intrigant German Ambassador to Austria Franz von Papen...
...stormy years of office, Chancellor Bruning invoked Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, unwittingly showed Adolf Hitler how to govern Germany without the Reichstag by personal decree. Today many a German believes that if the "Second Bismarck" had not wearily yielded his office to Franz von Papen, Hitler could not have seized power without civil...
Almost every Reichstag Deputy was in Nazi uniform-exceptions being Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, "The Little Man In Blue" and once-great German press tycoon (TIME, July 10, 1933), and Lieut. Colonel Franz von Papen, who barely escaped death in the Nazi "blood purge" (TIME, July 9, 1934) but still enjoys Herr Hitler's favor and is today the German Ambassador and No. 1 Nazi plotter in Der Führer's native Austria...
...attendant told him to come back at an hour when they would be open to the public. The reason why General Goring was thus dawdling in Vienna turned out afterward to be because of an elaborate ruse devised by the German Minister to the Austrian Republic, scheming Franz von Papen. It was his idea that Goring should as if by chance happen to appear on the Vienna station platform just as Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg was about to depart for Budapest to attend the funeral of Hungarian Premier Julius Gombos. The Chancellor would then be obliged, as a matter of courtesy...
This piece of elephantine German clever ness came to naught when pious little Chancellor Schuschnigg never did show up on the station platform and disgruntled General Goring climbed into his sleeping car berth grunting curses at von Papen's scheme. Unknown to the Germans and as a complete surprise to most Austrians, Dr. Schuschnigg was engaged in seizing supreme power for himself and his following of Catholic bigwigs by a drastic Cabinet decree in effect making the Chancellor a Dictator. He was able to make this move because the 120,000 irregular "troops" of the Austrian Heimwehr had fortnight...