Word: schleicher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Kurt von Schleicher, the new Chancellor to whom many a German looks as Man of Next Year...
Trying his best to look, act and talk like a civilian, Germany's new Chancellor, General Kurt von Schleicher, has put away his bemedaled uniform, hung up his service cap. Fortnight ago he cajoled the hostile Reichstag into dissolution over the holidays (TIME, Dec. 19). Last week he made the program speech of his new Cabinet?which should have been made to the Reichstag?directly to the Damen und Herren of the Fatherland's radio audience. German tuners-in. accustomed to the rasping, imperious radio delivery of former Chancellor Colonel Franz von Papen, were pleasantly surprised as muftified General...
Spicing his speech with a bit of secret history, Chancellor von Schleicher told a story on himself & Cabinet which made the Fatherland chuckle. Two of his ministers, he said, recently quarreled. Minister of Agriculture Baron Friedrich Edler von Braun insisted on retention of Germany's high agricultural tariffs, while Minister of Economics (Industry) Professor Dr. Hermann Warmbold demanded agricultural free trade...
...There was only one thing to do," said Chancellor von Schleicher. "I locked the two of them in a room and urged them to agree by midnight. They...
...Joyous co-operation," concluded General von Schleicher "is asking a good deal in these critical days...