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...fateful interview. Generalleutnant Kurt von Schleicher, Minister of Defense, sat at his desk in the War Office fingering a paper in his desk drawer which he has had drawn up for days. If published, it will declare martial law throughout Germany, and the indefinite suspension of the Reichstag and parliamentary government. Pleasant, unassuming Kurt von Schleicher was born in Brandenburg, not far from Berlin, in 1882. In 1900 he entered the army at the age of 18. in the midst of the great final period of the German Empire. Because of the von in his name and his family connections...
...strangest birthday party the German Republic has had in its 13 hard-pressed years. As Minister of the Interior he was expected to make the leading address at the annual celebration of the adoption of the Weimar Constitution. It was his duty and he did it. In the Reichstag chamber a polite audience of diplomats, generals, bureaucrats and their wives gazed at a platform banked with mournful purple hydrangeas. Minister von Gayl never once mentioned the word "republic" and to the Weimar Constitution, object of the ceremony, he tossed the following lemon...
...definitely promised them Cabinet posts should he and other militarists succeed in setting up a Government. What Adolf Hitler was slow in realizing was that von Schleicher never had the slightest intention of allowing Nazis to run the government no matter how many votes they rolled up in a Reichstag election. Last week Hitler and von Schleicher went to the mat. Handsome Adolf, spurred on by his still more violent lieutenants, held out for complete control of the government. Sly von Schleicher offered him in turn first the Vice Chancellorship, an empty honor, with the Prussian Premiership thrown in; then...
Results of the Reichstag election fortnight ago, in which the Hitlerites more than doubled their representation but still failed to gain control of the Government, were all that Defense Minister Kurt von Schleicher could have hoped for. His own devious plans to rebuild the German army and possibly restore the monarchy are maturing; there is as yet no serious obstruction in sight. Puffing comfortably on a large pale cigar, he admitted a group of correspondents to his office last week and delivered himself of a few random observations. As everyone knows, smiling General von Schleicher has a high opinion...
Return of Brüning. There is one way that the Nationalist groups can have a parliamentary majority without dissolving the Reichstag: they might force the Junker Cabinet to declare the Communist Party outlaw, thus throwing out 89 Deputies and giving the Right Wing a working majority of 36. The morning after election day Nazi papers loudly demanded just such a move. It seemed unlikely that the "Cabinet of Monocles" would comply. Those 89 Communists represent over 5,000,000 voters of a very dangerous temper. The Communist Deputies will be extremely useful to Herr von Papen from time...