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...Elaborately friendly, Premier Edouard Herriot of France (who speaks German) and Chancellor Franz von Papen of Germany (who speaks French?see p. 16) strolled about arm in arm, taking each other's measure...
...said of the Young Plan that all its promises have failed to come true, adding that Germany can pay no more Reparations, there was no quarrel. The Frenchman's equally blunt retort that Germany can and must pay something, was taken in good part by Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen. Suddenly this onetime officer in the Kaiser's Army electrified Lausanne by proposing casually and unofficially "in American"* a military alliance between Germany and France...
Whether to laugh at this proposal or take it seriously was a problem the Conference simply did not face last week. A train carried Chancellor von Papen to Berlin, another sped Premier Herriot to Paris. Sir John Simon had already left for London?all three to consult their Governments. In Lausanne, where the Reparations Conference was not supposed to discuss military matters anyway, it adjourned pro tempore...
While shutters clicked Chancellor von Papen offered a light to Premier Herriot and a movietone recorded a chat between them and Prime Minister Mac-Donald in the garden of the Beau-Rivage. Later, lenses caught von Papen in his bathing suit, stepping into Lac Leman. Meanwhile his retinue of 60 Germans (one of the largest delegations) denied by the hour that the "Cabinet of Monocles" has any intention of promoting a Dictatorship or a Monarchist restoration in Germany...
Chancellor von Papen: "Reparations have become abhorrent. Experience excludes the possibility of recommencing payments. Reparations do not reconstruct, they destroy...