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...make their debut in the lobby. Hopeful Axis businessmen would swarm here to buy themselves a Jewish department store or a mine for practically nothing. German generals, quiet and scholarly, would talk here of their old campaigns and think up new ones. At one time or another Franz von Papen, Hitler's ambassador to Ankara . . . would rest in the lobby. . . . Suave Dr. Clodius, Hitler's economic wizard, would recover his breath here after endless discussions with General Antonescu. . . . Even Frau Himmler, wife of the Gestapo chief, looking like Elsa Maxwell, came and ate big portions of whipped cream...
Germany's foxy Ambassador to Turkey Franz von Papen last week found a sly way of increasing Turkey's worry over its position between Adolf Hitler and the Suez and Near Eastern oil. About to leave Ankara for a visit to Berlin, he delivered to Turkey's President Ismet Inönü a parting gift. It consisted of a learned volume on "grave excavations in Turkey...
...charge. In 1914 he was with Major General Frederick Funston at Veracruz. Disguised as a Mexican bum, he reconnoitered behind Mexican lines, found three locomotives for his gen eral. He remembers this escapade especially because of a young official of the Ger man Embassy who helped him : Franz von Papen...
Signs multiplied this week that the formation of Adolf Hitler's long-promised European Federation was close at hand: > In Ankara German Ambassador Franz von Papen told a correspondent that Germany would make a strong bid for peace with Great Britain as soon as the "decisive phase" of the Russian campaign was over...
Nobody, least of all smart Franz von Papen, expected Britain to listen to Hitler's peace bid. Winston Churchill had already said flatly that Britain would never treat with a Nazi (TIME, Nov. 17). Ambassador von Papen's interview was given to the correspondent of a Barcelona newspaper and was directed at Spain and Turkey. Germany, he said, regarded Turkey as a "bastion of peace" at the eastern end of the Mediterranean, as Spain was in the west. This week Berne reported German troop movements as far south as northern Spain...