Word: franz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significance. Unquestionably the Fatherland was in ferment last week, the chief reason being that President von Hindenburg has called into being a Cabinet with no parliamentary majority, headed by Chancellor Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen (TIME, June 13). On July 31 Germans will elect a new Reichstag, chances being that the Fascists will emerge as the largest party but without a majority. In that unsatisfactory event the political deadlock would be so complete that a coup d'état looms distinctly possible. Last week every faction-Monarchist, Fascist, Socialist, Communist-was watching cat-like for a chance to seize...
Certainly President Wilson demanded his recall, certainly the French accused him of "spying'' in the Netherlands in 1916. But the formal U. S. indictment charging Franz von Papen with fomenting sabotage and attempts to blow up Canada's Welland Canal was quashed early this year, along with a batch of other Wartime indictments. Evidence against von Papen was supplied chiefly by British operatives, perhaps not above crediting falsehoods against a German in time of war. What most aroused U. S. public opinion at the time was the revelation that Franz von Papen once wrote a private letter in which...
Devoutly Catholic and with highly placed Catholic friends (even in France), Franz von Papen became to all appearances a rich, regular and unexciting member of the German Catholic Centre Party, the party led today by ex-Chancellor Heinrich BrÜning. When President von Hindenburg dropped BrÜning, who had been his protege, the German military camarilla which had maneuvered BrÜning out suggested von Papen to the ancient President, who made him his new protege...
...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 to be learning, had he not learned before, how to tackle foreign affairs from the Teutonic point of view. Chatting one day about the Young Plan...
...Orleans last December the A. A. A. S. meeting at Syracuse last week was intellectually and physically headless. To New Orleans did not go retiring President William Hunt Morgan of Caltech or incoming President Franz Boas of Columbia. Both were seriously ill. Last week President Boas, still ill, was in Europe. By habit the A. A. A. scientists mustered gumption for the reading of a few papers...