Word: schleicher
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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...
Rumors flew that Chancellor von Schleicher had offered to make Herr Strasser the Reich Minister of Interior if Herr Hitler would consent, that Leader Hitler had refused to let any Fascist enter a Cabinet until he, Hitler, should be Chancellor and that Herr Strasser, disgusted by this stand, had made his feelings known in the only way he could. Herr Feder and about 50 of the Party's 195 Reichstag Deputies were said to support Herr Strasser, arguing that it is madness to deny job-hungry Fascists government jobs...