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...days of Cabinet crisis there emerged as Chancellor, out of a welter of intrigue, "His Field Grey Eminence," suave, sly Defense Minister General Kurt von Schleicher. By his friends the General's adroit scheming is said to have "made and broken" as Chancellor both fashionable, aristocratic Franz von Papen and his predecessor, pious, ascetic Dr. Heinrich Brüning...
...Papen-Hitler Plot. First sign that the von Schleicher Cabinet might be cracked by the same, sort of intrigue that made it, came when Hitler & von Papen, both smarting in eclipse, met at Cologne for a night conference (TIME, Jan. 16). Soon afterward they were joined by "The Hearst of Germany," small, cyclonic Nationalist Party Leader Dr. Alfred Hugenberg and, reputedly, by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, famed during his six years as president of the Reichsbank...
Straightforward and outspoken, President von Hindenburg has never concealed his preference for Franz von Papen as Chancellor. "With a heavy heart," he declared amid the Cabinet crisis last fall, "I have repressed my own personal inclination to reappoint Colonel von Papen and I have commissioned Defense Minister General von Schleicher to form a new Cabinet." Next day, ousted von Papen received a photograph of Der Reichspräsident inscribed in Old Paul's firm hand, Ich hatte einen Kameraden ("I had a Comrade"). By last week Comrade von Papen had convinced Comrade von Hindenburg that the best interests...
...Indeed!" When sober, cold-water-shaven Adolf Hitler turned up for the third historic time at the President's Palace last week, he found Old Paul all smiles and spruce Colonel von Papen ready to pop the question: "Will you, Herr Reichspräsident, entrust Herr Hitler with a mandate to form a Cabinet...
Vice-Chancellor and Reich Commissioner for the State of Prussia-Franz von Papen...