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...Papen? In Berlin the intrigue which moved President von Hindenburg to oust Dr. Brüning and appoint Lieut.-Colonel von Papen was universally ascribed to swank Lieut.-General Kurt von Schleicher, a model officer of the Imperial Army type, his bullet head fashionably clipped...
Three years ago General von Schleicher secured the creation for himself of a post called Political and Parliamentary Secretary to the Defense Ministry. There he had a finger in both political and military pies, wangled his way into the President's confidence and first showed his strength earlier this year by maneuvering out of office his immediate superior, Defense Minister General Wilhelm Groener. Last week General von Schleicher was credited with having made the President believe that "the army could not be depended on in a crisis with Dr. Brüning as Chancellor...
...Cabinet intriguing General von Schleicher appears as Minister of Defense. He is credited with completely dominating Chancellor von Papen. Germans, noting four barons in the new Government and that all its members are "high born," promptly nicknamed them the "Cabinet of Monocles...
Defense ? Lieut.-General Kurt von Schleicher...