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Haste in picking a new Chancellor was urgent because the German crisis had already run 14 days since the resignation of Lieut.-Colonel von Papen's "Cabinet of Monocles"; and because last week only four more days remained before the newly elected Reichstag was scheduled to meet. The thing to do, President von Hindenburg decided, was to reappoint his favorite protégé, Chancellor Franz von Papen...
Arguing the President out of this decision last week was General von Schleicher's master stroke-though he personally said little. By means best known to himself the wily General induced about half the "Cabinet of Monocles" (including von Papen) to go to the President and tell him that German public opinion had become so set against von Papen that no Cabinet could carry on with him as Chancellor. The beauty of this argument was its "naked truth"-a favorite phrase of persuasive General von Schleicher...
...Paul yielded with extreme reluctance. It hurt him to drop von Papen, his favorite, even on the advice of von Schleicher whom he trusts. In a blazingly frank press communique, Old Paul announced that he was acting "with a heavy heart. . . . 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...
...Chancellors for the past two years have ruled in defiance of the Reichstag, dissolving it when necessary by Presidential decree, Chancellor von Schleicher ignored the theoretical odds against him, proceeded calmly to build his Cabinet. There was a chance-slim but a chance-that with well-hated Colonel von Papen definitely out, the Reichstag might be cajoled by Chancellor von Schleicher into adjourning until next year under the familiar German formula of a "Christmas Truce...
Next most objectionable to Colonel von Papen in Germany is his former Minister of Interior, Baron von Gayl who is everywhere suspected of having urged the "Cabinet of Monocles" to scrap the Republican Constitution and restore Hohenzollern rule. Last week Chancellor von Schleicher avoided re-appointing Baron von Gayl, did reappoint in his Cabinet most other members of the "Cabinet of Monocles." The new slate...