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...Cabinet portfolio before; no representative of German labor or the trade unions; no member of either the Socialist Party or the Fascist Party, respectively largest and next-largest in the Reichstag. To cap the climax President von Hindenburg appointed as Germany's new Chancellor notorious Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen. English editors promptly splashed out the screamer EX-SPY BECOMES GERMAN CHANCELLOR...
Intimates of President von Hindenburg advanced a remarkable hypothesis. They suggested that Old Paul had never heard of von Papen's recall from the U. S. on Dec. 10, 1915 by the Imperial German Government at the urgent request of President Wilson. Very likely Der Feldmarschall was too busy in April 1916 trying to win the War to read of the U. S. indictment charging Military Attaché von Papen of the Imperial German Embassy in Washington with conspiracy to blow up Canada's Welland Canal...
...subordinate military and naval attaches, von Papen and Boy-Ed, directed most of the "Teutonic plots." (See GERMANY, "Boy-Ed Coming...
...patriots recalled that, as a naval attaché under von Bernstorff, the German pre-War Ambassador to the U. S., Captain Boy-Ed caused such publications as the well poised Outlook to print the following denunciation of his activities: "Captain Boy-Ed and Captain von Papen . . . have been the inspiration if not the agency of the Teutonic plots and conspiracies . . . of all the hideous crimes?arson, dynamiting, murder?committed in this country in a shameless and cowardly attempt to stop our supplies from going to the Allies...
...withdrawal means a realignment within the Centre Party. Some of his personal following will doubtless go with him leftwards. The rest of the party will probably congregate about Franz von Papen (onetime German military attache at Washington) who has been gaining influence in the conservative wing of the party...