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...hand Chancellor von Papen's ousting of the Prussian Cabinet under a decree of President von Hindenburg is annulled and Premier Braun & Ministers are empowered to represent the Government of Prussia. On the other hand the chancellor's appointment under the same Presidential decree of Dr. Franz Bracht as Acting Federal Commissioner to govern the State of Prussia is upheld. In effect the Supreme Court decision recognizes simultaneously two conflicting authorities in Prussia...
Serious Invasions. Since the child (Prussia) obviously had to be put together, President von Hindenburg invited Premier Braun to a consultation at which Chancellor von Papen was present. It ended in a furious quarrel over what the Supreme Court had meant, though the President, the Chancellor and the Premier all professed extreme respect for the Court's hopelessly ambiguous verdict...
Foreign investors who have kept on hoping that Germany will repay at least her "private debts" ($1,000,000,000) in money of some sort, were rudely shaken when a blunt electioneering speech was barked by Chancellor Franz von Papen last week to plump, approving Westphalian industrialists at Paderborn...
...Munich, earlier in the week, aristocratic Chancellor von Papen, no baby-kisser, made himself solid by devouring publicly a huge plateful of the ancient city's long, white sausages and washing them down with frothing Münchner. He then launched into a fighting speech, shouted that other powers must at once grant to Germany the right of "armament equality" with themselves. Finally he drew thunderous Munich cheers by asking, ''How can our commerce nourish, if Germany does not enjoy the same respect abroad as other nations? Who will invest in a land which is constantly threatened...
...affair has been moving in a vicious circle. The United States leans money to Germany; this is paid to the various European countries as reparations; they in turn pay it back to the United States as their war debts. In other words no money is paid at all. Von Papen's statement is a perfectly solid fact. Unless tariffs are lowered Germany cannot sell her goods abroad., no credit can be built up, and thus no debts can be paid. Since no country will consent to lower its tariff purely for economic idealism, the moratorium must be indefinitely extended...