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...administered as mandates by Great Britain. France and Japan. . . . The day is not far off when Germany will also demand restoration of territories seized from her on the Continent" (Alsace-Lorraine, the Polish Corridor, parts of Upper Silesia, Eupen & Malmedy, Danzig, the Saar. etc., etc.). Chancellor von Papen wrote in Der Saar Frennd last week: "The Saar District is German and wants to remain German. . . .* Growing knowledge of the real sentiments of the Saar population leads me to hope-without indulging in illusions -that the arbitrarily created problem of the Saar may soon be solved in accordance with the wishes...
Blow at Britain. Quietly upping a long list of German tariff schedules by decree. Chancellor von Papen choked off Great Britain's chief exports to the Reich, notably textiles, the duty on which he raised...
Within 20 hours the British Government retaliated by decreeing similar prohibitive duties which choked off German exports of gloves and sausages to Britain. In the White House, worried President Hoover wondered what to do about prohibitive duties imposed by the von Papen decree on cash registers, typewriters and other office equipment of which the U. S. normally exports to Germany some $6,000,000 worth per year...
Reminder to France. Next von Papen sent an ultimatum to France, discreetly conveyed in the form of an aide-mémoire handed by German Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath to French Ambassador Andre Frangois-Poncet in Berlin. This little reminder merely asked that France consent to revision of the Treaty of Versailles in such fashion as to give Germany a war strength equal...
Give Back All! In Berlin the serenely provoking Chancellor received his old friend Charles A. Oberwager, the Manhattan lawyer who defended Franz von Papen in 1915 when U. S. newspapers called him a "German spy" and accused him of plotting to blow up U. S. munition plants. Lawyer Oberwager hastened to Paris and there said (presumably with his former client's permission...