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...average German, whatever his other opinions of the von Schleicher-Papen régime, was behind them 100% in their determination to put an end to political assassination. By linking himself definitely with the condemned, Handsome Adolf lost enormous influence in the Reich. His second message was no more tactful...
...Herr von Papen, your bloody objectivity does not exist for me. I am not suited to become the executioner of patriotic fighters for freedom. . . . Heaven may send us torture upon torture but our movement will be able to finish this guillotine government...
Ended last week the first sennight of Adolf Hitler's open opposition to the Junker Cabinet of Chancellor von Papen. Government officials lost no time in putting this opposition to the test. Acting under Defense Minister von Schleicher's emergency decree against terrorism, five Nazis were sentenced to death at Beuthen, Silesia, for so beating a Communist workman named Pietzruch that he died of wounds. That there should be no charge of discrimination, several members of the republican Reichsbanner were imprisoned for from 18 months to four years for brutality in other Silesian riots...
...financial arrangements with Russia. Also he would hold down Hitler. The rest is open news. Von Schleicher returned to Berlin, set his cabal against republican Chancellor Briining in motion, won over President von Hindenburg and set up his Junker "Cabinet of Monocles" under smartly groomed Lieut. Colonel Franz von Papen, his military subordinate...
Relations. Sly General von Schleicher had reasons for selecting Baron von Gayl and Lieut. Colonel von Papen. The smooth von Papen married the niece of a French Marquis. He speaks almost perfect French. He has many French friends and much money invested in French concerns. Baron von Gayl is descended from an Andreas Gail of Cologne, ennobled about 1390, one branch of whose descend ants went to France, while the others moved east to Prussia and the Polish border. The French branch of the family still exists; the French army contains a General Baron Jean de Gail...