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...serving his Government when he undertook to dicker for the butchers and promised them safe entry into Germany. This blunder was irretrievable but it gave intuitive Chancellor Hitler one of his bright ideas. He has long been looking for a way to ease German Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen, protégé and "best comrade" of President von Hindenburg, out of his Cabinet (TIME, July 9). Impulsively Chancellor Hitler dashed off an effusive letter, "requesting you, Dear Herr von Papen to aid ... in [bringing] back to normal and friendly paths our long unfortunate relations to the German Austrian State. ... I have...
...Godspeed: "God guide you, Herr Reichskanzler!" Even before the thundering tri-motor reached Tempelhof Field its radio had spoken and in high Nazi circles the President's steadying hand was felt. Old Paul had persuaded Chancellor Hitler that the way to ORDER lay in retaining Vice Chancellor von Papen and taking certain other vital steps with which the German Press soon hummed...
Beloved Storm Troops. Back in Berlin, meanwhile, Chancellor Hitler had cheered up Vice Chancellor von Papen whose son and daughter, members of Berlin's smart younger set, went about chirping, "Papa is all right now." He was not quite all right. Unidentified Nazi enemies in a last effort to get something on von Papen moved fast and secretly one night while he was out. The Government's muzzled Press disclosed nothing, but Frau von Papen told friends, "They searched the whole house, even the kitchen...
Confident that nothing which could be used against him had been in his house, Vice Chancellor von Papen. no longer red-eyed, gradually recovered his aplomb until he was his old chipper self. Since the duties of a German Vice Chancellor are even more nominal than those of a U. S. Vice President, Herr von Papen was in no hurry to have a new building found for his Vice Chancellory. He urbanely left his old offices to Storm Troop Chief Viktor Lutze who kept peppering brownshirt Storm Troopers every few hours with new orders. They must not wear their uniforms...
...this talisman by humoring the President's simple wants. He was more than prepared to bow to the Reichspräsident's will and keep on in office Old Paul's "best comrade" and favorite among all his bygone Chancellors, Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen, a brother officer in the Feldmarschall's old regiment...