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...fellow conspirators, but no grenades were thrown. His fellow conspirators had planned that Asho should be killed by guards' bullets. On his dead body was found an Arab talisman bearing the words: "Kill, thou shalt be safe." In 1942 the Macedonian who attempted to murder Franz von Papen, then Nazi Ambassador to Turkey, was given a contraption (allegedly by Soviet agents) which, he was told, would produce a smoke screen to cover his escape. When the assassin touched off the "smoke" bomb, it blew him to pieces...
Colonel Meinertzhagen was the man who fooled Franz von Papen in Palestine [during World War I], exposing himself to a chase by German cavalry and losing a saddlebag full of carefully prepared misleading information about General Allenby's plans. Meinertzhagen, moreover, is the only living European . . . who has entered the hallowed and mysterious cave of Machpelah* in the tomb of the patriarchs at Hebron...
...others: Franz von Papen, Hans Fritzsche...
...emergency refuge outside the city, an extra stock of surgical supplies, and prepared his staff for a long siege. President Roosevelt called him "a good fixer and boss trader." In 1942 F.D.R. switched him to Turkey, where Steinhardt was matched against Germany's crafty Franz von Papen in the diplomatic wrestle for Turkey's friendship. After the war, before coming to Ottawa, Steinhardt served the U.S. in troubled Czechoslovakia, then starting on its painful journey through the Communist rolling mill...
Franz von Papen, 69, Hitler's super-sleek diplomat, who has served two years of an eight-year rap as a major Nazi offender, was really only a second-class Nazi, a German appeals court decided. A fine of 30,000 marks ($9,000) still stood, and he got a solemn warning not to take part in any activities that might mold public opinion. Then the court ordered the return of his confiscated property and his release from prison...