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...third important outcome of the elections is the rise in the Nationalist vote. This party under the leadership of Hugenberg has been supporting the Von Papen government and consequently an increase in their vote means an increase in popular approval of the present cabinet...
Thus Chancellor von Papen hog-tied the Prussian Free State to the German Federal Government but left bald Dr. Braun loose as Premier of Prussia...
Profoundly disillusioned, the Cabinet of Bavarian Premier Dr. Heinrich Held dashed off a telegram to President von Hindenburg, accused Chancellor von Papen of "serious invasions into the constitutional status of all German states...
...sheer, high-handed awkwardness this arrangement could scarcely be surpassed. It meant the undoing by Chancellor von Papen of his own oratorical efforts to convince the Bavarian Free State that he really has no intention of encroaching on "States rights...
Next day Chancellor von Papen tried to absorb the Prussian Cabinet into his Federal Cabinet. He created a Federal Ministry called the "Ministry of Interior of Prussia," and gave it to Dr. Bracht, who has been ruling Prussia as Acting Federal Commissioner. A Dr. Johann Popitz was popped into the State and Federal Cabinets as "Minister of Finance of Prussia." Finally the Federal Minister of Agriculture, Baron Magnus von Braun, added to his titles "Minister of Agriculture of Prussia...