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Parliamentary experts told the Chancellor that if he dared to face the Reichstag his Cabinet would be overwhelmingly defeated. Therefore Protege von Papen asked Patron von Hindenburg to dissolve the Reichstag, which he obligingly did. Within 60 days a new Reichstag must be elected?but in less than ten days Germany must send a delegation to the Lausanne Conference, which all the world hopes will untangle Reparations, War Debts and German private debts...
Thus for better or for worse Chancellor von Papen will hold supreme directive power during one of the most trying crises faced by the Reich. To dismiss his Cabinet of Monocles as a bad joke became impossible...
...post while snubbing or cutting direct visiting German Republicans. Dr. Stresemann, who placed Franco-German relations on friendly terms for the first time since the War, may well have turned in his grave at the appointment of Baron von Neurath as his successor. On the other hand Chancellor von Papen may decide to head the German delegation himself. Paradoxically, the Chancellor is rumored, as a man of business and trade, to have notably friendly relations with Frenchmen whose moneyed interests parallel...
...face of things the Hitlerites should win the coming Reichstag election as they won the election for the Prussian Diet (TIME, May 2), but last week an astonishing prediction was made from a source close to General von Schleicher and Baron von Gayl. Prediction: "The von Papen Cabinet will last from three to four years...
...Battlecry of Reaction." The new Cabinet's declaration of policy was called throughout Germany a battle cry of reaction. Declaring that "postWar German Governments have weakened the morale of the people by a system of State Socialism" including the dole, Chancellor von Papen declared that "this moral degeneration was enhanced by the class struggle with Bolshevism which, like a corroding poison, threatens to destroy our moral code...