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...solemn assemblage gathered last week. There was old Paul, grimly upright in his chair; Chancellor Franz von Papen, looking more like a startled police dog than, usual; bald, ever smiling Defense Minister von Schleicher; a few assistants. Gravely the old Field Marshal reached for a pen and signed a document which, informed observers believe, had been drawn up the week that Chancellor von Papen took office...
Armed with this historic document, the aristocratic "Cabinet of Monocles" moved next morning with the precision of the old Imperial Army which they are so eager to recreate. The entire Socialist Cabinet of Premier Otto Braun of Prussia was declared deposed. Socialist Minister of the Interior Karl Severing showed fight, refused to leave the Wilhelmstrasse except by force. A squad of steel-helmeted soldiers arrived, their officers carrying clanking sabres in the old manner. Karl Severing reconsidered...
...will be followed by fresh achievements. They affirm further that success will be more readily won if the nations will rally to a new effort in the cause of peace, which can only be complete if it is applied in both the economic and political spheres. In the same document the signatory powers declare their intention to make every effort to resolve the problems which exist at the present moment or may arise subsequently in the spirit which has inspired the Lausanne agreement. In that spirit His Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom and the French Government decided themselves...
...this time of unprecedented economic and social distress," began the document, "the Democratic party declares its conviction that the chief causes of this condition were the disastrous policies pursued by our Government since the World War. . . . Those responsible [i.e. Republicans] have ruined our foreign trade, destroyed the values of our commodities and products, crippled our banking system, robbed millions of their life savings and thrown millions more out of work, produced widespread poverty and brought the Government to a state of financial distress unprecedented in time of peace. . . . The only hope lies in a drastic change...
...Englishman, one an Italian?washing sovereigns in a basin, counting and bagging them. The ecstatic crew galloped at their jobs, contemptuously trampling and scattering bundles of rupee notes on the after deck. Commander Quaglia saluted his visitors. One of the customs men showed Commander Quaglia an official document: "Sorry, sir. A warrant for the arrest of the gold...