Word: prussians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Defiance blazed last week between the two cabinets at Berlin, the Prussian State Cabinet and the German Federal Cabinet...
When they had looked at a cartoon in Berlin's Socialist Vorwärts and read an article in Cologne's Catholic Volkzeitung the new German Cabinet of Chancellor Franz von Papen made formal demand upon the Prussian Government to punish both papers by suspending them for five days...
...Socialist cartoon showed brown-shirted Fascists being paid out of the Federal Treasury, which they are not. The Catholic article attacked Catholic Chancellor von Papen for his stand at Lausanne. Decision as to whether to suppress the newspapers was up to Prussian Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Karl Severing, taciturn Socialist, famed for ruthless police methods to keep order in Berlin...
...fill the post of first Vice President of the Diet, agreed last week to the pop ping into that post of a Nationalist. Herr Wolfgang von Kries, tolerably acceptable to the Fascists. In logic there was "no sense" to this arrangement, but as a practical compromise it cleared the Prussian air. Herr Hitler seemed to assume that on July 31 his Fascists will score such a smashing victory nationally that opposition in the Prussian Diet will have to give way, thus ushering in a Fascist Premier of Prussia which is nearly two-thirds of Germany...
...Papen. Born in 1879 at Werl in Prussia, Franz von Papen became a "career officer'' in the Imperial German Army. He married the niece of a French Marquis from the Sarr Basin (then German, now governed by a League of Nations commission). From his wife the Prussian officer learned to speak almost perfect French. In Washington, where von Papen was German Military Attache when the War opened, both she and he were popular...