Word: schleicher
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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That von Papen is the creature of the camarilla headed by his Minister of Defense, Lieut.-General Kurt von Schleicher, few Germans doubted last week. They remembered however that Dr. BrÜning, utterly obscure when first appointed, grew in the 26 months that he was Chancellor into a figure commanding vast respect and not a little liking throughout Europe. Camarilla or no camarilla, intrigue or no intrigue, the German Chancellor today is Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen. Through his bony fingers pass the affairs of a Great Power. In Switzerland last week he seemed to be finding himself, seemed...
...dictatorship," said Dictatorial General von Schleicher in Berlin last week, "would be a nuisance...
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...
Short of a military coup d'etat or acquiescence of Adolf Hitler in a coalition this prediction seemed flatly unfulfillable. Observers inclined, however, to see in General von Schleicher and Baron von Gayl precisely the pair who may be able to draw Adolf Hitler into a Junkers-Army-Fascist coalition, thus giving the Fatherland a fresh and iron front, potent in dealing with other nations...