Word: schleicher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prince Bismarck in 1890 and is remembered by the Fatherland because he won her so much African territory, notably the crooked strip called "Caprivi's Finger." Last week the Chancellorship fell like a ripe pippin into the calmly outstretched hand of swank, sardonic, intriguing Defense Minister Kurt von Schleicher who is a full general...
...Schleicher, the Machiavelli of modern German politics, had maneuvered party leaders and the President into an impasse from which the only exit was to make him Chancellor. Beginning three weeks ago with Adolf Hitler, the party leaders were forced to admit that none of them could find a majority in the Reichstag on which to base a Cabinet. This they could not do because President von Hindenburg demanded pledges in advance that they carry out his reactionary policies-policies which the 85-year-old President was advised by Defense Minister von Schleicher are essential to the safety of the Reich...
Arguing the President out of this decision last week was General von Schleicher's master stroke-though he personally said little. By means best known to himself the wily General induced about half the "Cabinet of Monocles" (including von Papen) to go to the President and tell him that German public opinion had become so set against von Papen that no Cabinet could carry on with him as Chancellor. The beauty of this argument was its "naked truth"-a favorite phrase of persuasive General von Schleicher...
...Paul yielded with extreme reluctance. It hurt him to drop von Papen, his favorite, even on the advice of von Schleicher whom he trusts. In a blazingly frank press communique, Old Paul announced that he was acting "with a heavy heart. . . . I have repressed my own personal inclination to reappoint Colonel von Papen and I have commissioned Defense Minister General von Schleicher to form a new Cabinet...
...final decision was taken. A President aged 85 thinks and acts slowly. Impatient with Old Paul, Berlin's busy inside-dopesters started rumors that the President will turn Germany's Government into "a military dictatorship with General von Schleicher as Chancellor and Lieut.-Colonel von Papen as Vice Chancellor...