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...Paris Matin released officially-inspired rumors that the two Premiers had reached sufficient agreement to present a united Franco-British front to Germany. As the German Delegation left Berlin, Chancellor von Papen's position was that Germany can pay nothing more in Reparations and cannot even accept an extension of the Hoover Moratorium, under which the principle of German payment is upheld by having the Reich pay comparatively small sums into the Bank for International Settlements which are then re-loaned to Germany. The German demand to be presented at Lausanne was for total cancellation of Reparations with...
...force the Free State of Prussia back under direct rule by the German Government seemed the bold design last week of Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen, bristling Chancellor of the Fatherland's reactionary "Cabinet of Monocles" (TIME, June 13). In the old days when Wilhelm II was both German Emperor and King of Prussia the two cabinets were of course interlocked. Therefore the Fatherland seethed with monarchist rumors as Chancellor von Papen put the screws on Prussia. This he did by abruptly forbidding a payment of 100,000,000 marks ($23,700,000) from the German Treasury...
...Premier Dr. Christian Schmitt of Baden. Bending over a small table, so that their heads nearly touched, South Germany's spokesmen drafted a long, tart telegram to President von Hindenburg, himself a Prussian. Whatever its ultimate effect, the immediate result of this wire was to make the von Papen Cabinet shorten their reactionary sails and steer a more cautious course...
...made a bid for confidence by admitting, "I am a monarchist by tradition and conviction." Then he ringingly declared, "But I will allow no doubt that I shall be faithful to the oath of allegiance to the [Republican] Constitution that I swore before President von Hindenburg! Moreover Chancellor von Papen and the other ministers are in agreement with...
...There must be a showdown!" cried Chancellor von Papen, then proposed somewhat vaguely to "force the building of a new Germany on the basis of the unchanging principles of Christianity...