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...opened, both [his wife] and he were popular. . . . Evidence against von Papen was supplied chiefly by British operatives, perhaps not above crediting falsehoods against a German in time of war" (TIME, July 4). As Chancellor, Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen has never yet dared to face the Reichstag, knowing that his "Cabinet of Monocles" would meet certain defeat...
Significance. Unquestionably the Fatherland was in ferment last week, the chief reason being that President von Hindenburg has called into being a Cabinet with no parliamentary majority, headed by Chancellor Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen (TIME, June 13). On July 31 Germans will elect a new Reichstag, chances being that the Fascists will emerge as the largest party but without a majority. In that unsatisfactory event the political deadlock would be so complete that a coup d'état looms distinctly possible. Last week every faction-Monarchist, Fascist, Socialist, Communist-was watching cat-like for a chance to seize...
...police won't support us, we'll boot them to Hell!" screamed Herr Edmund Heines, a Fascist member of the German Reichstag speaking at Breslau. "In one month we'll be the police...
Next to General von Schleicher, the most prominent new Cabinet figure is Baron Wilhelm von Gayl, Minister of Interior. Charged with the federal policing of all Germany, this typical Prussian junker (landed aristocrat) can wield much power in the coming Reichstag election. During the War as Chief Political Officer of the Eastern Army Command and afterward as Governor of Northern Lithuania in 1918 he showed both velvet tact and an iron hand...
...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...