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Taking his birthday presents as a touching text last week, Old Paul broadcast an appeal to Germans, asked them to give him at the general election Nov. 6 one more present: unified support of the Cabinet of Chancellor Franz von Papen...
...Unity of Germans has always been brought about at critical moments," boomed the President, "by the healthy spirit of Germans! "Whoever stands with me helps this spirit and gives me the happiest birthday present. Therefore-Vorwartsmit Gott!" By next morning astute campaigners for von Papen had adopted as their political slogan the President's reverent words: ''Forward with God!" This was more than many a German could stomach. If von Papen was stealing the nimbus of von Hindenburg, then revered Old Paul had himself ceased to be sacrosanct. Soon, for the first time in a German electoral...
...fear it would vote down the President's decree cutting employes' wages and subsidizing employers by granting them tax remissions in the form of negotiable certificates. The Reichstag, after it was dissolved, voted down the President's decree 513 to 32 but von Hindenburg and von Papen successfully held this vote to be illegal. Therefore their cut-&-subsidize decree remains in force...
Nazis power. . . . The battle can commence now. In four weeks we shall be victorious-victorious! ... I predict the collapse-the total collapse-of von Papen's program and of his Government!" In Leipzig, a few days later, eminent counsel for the State of Prussia, the State of Bavaria and the State of Baden began an unprecedented suit before the German Supreme Court, claiming that Chancellor von Papen acted unconstitutionally when he, acting under a decree of President von Hindenburg, suppressed the elected Gov ernment of Prussia and replaced it by an appointed Federal Commissioner (TIME, Aug. I). Obviously this...
When he played in Berlin three years ago Yehudi Menuhin was 12, the same age as last week's performer, Violinist Ruggiero Ricci. But although his fingers were nimble, his bowing free, his tone surprisingly smooth, the little Italian boy did not cause Chancellor von Papen to arise and cheer or Albert Einstein to rush backstage. Ricci's playing used to have an emotional quality which made few critics hesitate to class him with Menuhin. Lawsuits followed in which his parents claimed that his guardian, Beth Lackey, was exploiting the boy. The courts returned him to the parents...