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...Berlin for some days von Papen had been considered politically dead. The strain of living under house arrest, never knowing when his guards might turn executioners, had made the Vice Chancellor's eyes red from sleepless worry-or nervous weeping. Even a son of onetime All Highest Kaiser Wilhelm, gape-jawed, goggle-eyed Prince August Wilhelm ("Auwi"), had been called on the carpet as a plot suspect by bull-necked Nazi General Hermann Wilhelm Göring. After grilling perspiring "Auwi," whom he scared half to death, General Göring kicked him out of the Nazi Party...
...play up as biggest news of the week a royal visit to President von Hindenburg by weak-eyed little King Prajadhipok of Siam and his equally short but amply curvesome Queen Rambui Barni. Oscar and the other venerable storks of East Prussia had not seen such pomp since Kaiser Wilhelm's day. Two private cars of the German State Railways sped Their Majesties out from Berlin, across the hated Polish Corridor (an emotional barrier not in the least inconveniencing the King and Queen) and on to the snug East Prussian station of Freystadt where they were...
Both Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht and ex-Crown Prince Wilhelm denied over the telephone rumors that they had been shot. But the Government announced ominously that "a few more executions may soon be made known" and it was established that a Nazi trooper had shot the Chief of the Catholic Action Society, Herr Erich J. G. Klausener, charged with having been slated to be Minister of Transportation in some conspirator's government...
...crowning sensation of last week's killings came when Secret Police pushed into the swank suburban mansion of General Kurt von Schleicher, immediate predecessor of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor and the officer to whom it fell in 1918 to tell All Highest Wilhelm II that his army was no longer faithful to the Crown and that he had best flee to Holland...
Since orders are emphatically orders when they come from Il Duce, Admiral Cantu and his 19 ships stayed on. Vexed Paris editors pointedly recalled Wilhelm II's high-handed dispatch of the warship Panther to Agadir in 1911 as a threat to France. The Italian demonstration at Durazzo apparently was II Duce's answer to M. Barthou who had just told a madly cheering Rumanian Chamber of Deputies in Bucharest that under the post-War treaties "Peace is restored to you and your frontiers! They will remain yours. You should know that if a square centimetre of your...