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...came home with a swelled head and hot new ideas for Dictatorship from his visit to Benito Mussolini (TIME, June 25). certainly last week he was dextrously chilled and shrunk-and by the very Hindenburg henchman who first presented him to the President, dapper, nonchalant Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen...
...chilling and shrinking were endowed with Hindenburg might when the President telegraphed "congratulations to my Vice-Chancellor and best comrade" after Lieut.-Colonel von Papen had dared to read to college students at Marburg the first candid and sweeping criticism of Nazi policies voiced by any German statesman since Hitler came to power...
Raking the brownshirts' vaunted "Totalitarian State" from stem to stern, von Papen flayed its muzzling of the Press, its meddling with religion, its encouragement of fanaticism and the drift toward radicalism of those Nazis who keep shouting for a Second Revolution. "Did we experience an anti-Marxist revolution," he barked, "only to carry out the program of Marxism...
Finally von Papen appealed covertly for restoration of the Monarchy in words' plain to every German: "In my opinion the German state will at some future date find its crowning glory in a Chief of State who is removed once and for all from the political arena, from demagogy and from clashes among economic and vocational interests...
...Schleicher, but as even Schleicher's intelligence becomes more & more powerless to stop the Nazis. he is written off as a ''trimmer." Greatest villain of the piece is old Paul von Hindenburg, who is accused of knifing Brü ning, reluctantly abandoning his favorite von Papen, using Schleicher and striking a deal with Hitler-all because of his anxiety to save his own and his friends' East Prussian estates from an investigation that would have showed up the Junker squires as tax-evaders and misappropriators of government funds. According to Author "X," Hitler overcame Hindenburg...