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...above placid Lac Leman, but in suburban Ouchy at the water's brim, in the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Beau-Rivage. Around an oblong table the delegates of 14 nations* faced each other with a great calm. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, Premier Edouard Herriot, Chancellor Franz von Papen and the rest knew that their action must be to postpone action, adopt a temporary European moratorium and lay plans for drawing the U. S. into general cancellation of Reparations & Debts-after the U. S. elections next November...
...Papen. Since this was the first appearance of Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen at a conference with a really big C.† the new German Chancellor was the focus of world attention at Lausanne last week. Soon cables carried the news that the titular head of Germany's reactionary "Cabinet of Monocles"- is not nearly so domineering as expected, in fact is not domineering at all. London newspapers which recently scare-headed EX-SPY BECOMES GERMAN CHANCELLOR could not deny last week that Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen speaks with a soft intonation, sits for minutes at a time...
...days later Lieut.-Colonel von Papen, sleekly groomed for the occasion, made his first formal address as Chancellor to the equally sleek Agricultural Council, central body of German Junkers (landed aristocrats). Mindful of the warning from South Germany, he pledged his Cabinet to "adhere to the framework of the [Republican] Constitution," but he raised loudest hochs by exclaiming: "The unprecedented spiritual and material situation of the German people requires liberation from the chains of party politics and unification of all forces for the rebirth of Germany...
This speech rekindled South German fears. To President von Hindenburg rushed the three South German premiers led by Bavaria's Held. They were received with Chancellor von Papen present. Mincing no words Dr. Held threatened to arrest any official who might be sent from Berlin to interfere in Bavaria's affairs, accused Chancellor von Papen of intending to force upon Prussia as the head of that state a Federal commissioner. Dr. Held also denounced Baron von Gayl's complimentary reference to Adolf Hitler's Storm Troops, declared that whatever the Federal Government might do the Bavarian...
...immediate crisis was expected, since Chancellor von Papen and the leading members of his Cabinet had to depart for the Lausanne Conference. Meanwhile the Prussian Free State struggled heroically to balance its budget, raised a forced loan by levying on the salaries of State employes, succeeded in obtaining credits from certain friendly Berlin banks. Correspondents agreed that intra-German relations have never been more strained since the founding of the Republic...