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...Foreign Office was turned over to a sabre-rattling "Pilsudski Colonel" who was once the Dictator's personal adjutant, Col. Josef Beck. In his new office Col. Beck will rattle diplomatically at Berlin's rattlers, German Chancellor Franz von Papen and German Defense Minister Kurt von Schleicher. Starting out with a soft, soothing, almost inaudible rattle last week Col. Beck declared, "Our foreign policy will remain unchanged. The change [from Zaleski to Beck] is purely a personal one." When the Polish budget was presented to the Sejm last week. Finance Minister Zawadski admitted that it envisions...
...Berlin it was rumored that since Chancellor von Papen is now clearly "Not the People's Choice," he may be replaced by some other Chancellor, leaving the Cabinet still directed by its real strong man, Defense Minister Lieut.-General Kurt von Schleicher, the astute, intriguing Machiavelli...
...TIME, Sept. 26). "They [Germans] pay lip homage to the universal desire for peace," cried M. Herriot, "but their demand is actually for the rearmament of Germany. If the German note itself was not perfectly clear the speeches and interviews given by the German Defense Minister, General Kurt von Schleicher, have left us in no doubt...
...ultra-arbitrary change, Paul von Hindenburg took his place last week in a class with Josef Stalin and Benito Mussolini. Vital fact: The 84-year-old President and his angelic Chancellor are well known to be guided in their dictatorial steps by sly but patriotic Defense Minister Kurt von Schleicher, tireless in his intrigues to restore the goose-step unity and military might of Imperial Germany...
...organ and one of the right-hand men of Adolf Hitler. Herr Hitler attended Dr. Goebbels' wedding last winter. Fortnight ago when the Nazis were venting their rage at the von Papen Cabinet, tart-tongued Goebbels coined the bon mot of the week at the expense of General von Schleicher: "Bayonets may be good for lots of things, but one cannot sit on them forever." The quotation that caused his muzzling last week was angrier and not so funny. Writing of the Beuthen death sentences he said...