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Though Chancellor Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen was in Switzerland attending the Lausanne Conference last week, he received incessant telephone calls from Berlin, kept in closest touch. On soft-spoken but reactionary Chancellor von Papen, the German masses blamed decrees and orders which...
...Hammer Blows!" Smoldering behind national discontent with the von Papen-von Hindenburg decrees was of course the issue of states' rights which flamed up when Premier Dr. Heinrich Held of Bavaria defied President von Hindenburg's decree authorizing Adolf Hitler's 400,000 "Storm Troops" to put on their brown uniforms again and make public appearance (TIME, June 20). Last week Herr Hitler stormed into the presence of Baron von Gayl, demanded that Dr. Held be restrained from interfering with Fascists in Bavaria. Experts on the German Constitution meanwhile opined that no German state has the right to override President...
When the Ministers of Interior trooped home without committing themselves, Fascist fury began to show itself openly for the first time against Chancellor von Papen and his "Cabinet of Monocles," hitherto tolerated as better than the BrÜning Cabinet (TIME, June 13). "This Government," exploded Der Angriff, Berlin organ of Herr Hitler, "has nothing to do with the Fascist Party! It has out-BrÜninged BrÜning in issuing oppressive decrees. These last are hammer blows on the backs of a starving people...
...sense" but. . . . Chancellor von Papen, recently suspected of an intent to place the Free State of Prussia under the rule of a "Federal Commissioner" (TIME, June 20) agreed over the telephone to a peculiar settlement of that issue last week. The Fascists, though they have a plurality in the Prussian Diet and are therefore entitled by tradition to expect that the other parties will join in electing a Fascist Premier of Prussia, agreed last week that Socialist Dr. Otto Braun may remain Prussian Premier without opposition until the Federal election June...
Trust Gulped. Reactionary though he is, Lieut. -Colonel von Papen sanctioned last week the highly radical step of absorbing the German coal, iron & steel trust V. S. (Vcreinigte Stahlwerke A. G.) into the Government at one fell gulp...