The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-13
ALLIANCE With
FRANCE is aim
OF Won PAPEN
Junker Chancellor Is Out
to Destroy SovietS'
Swear Plan.
This Il the last Of q series Of articles
bv Frederick Kuh on the German situa-
ton
BY FREDERICK KUN
Copyright. 1882. BY United Press

BERLIN, June 13.-If Lieutenant
Colonel Franz Won Pspen has his
way as head Of the "all monocle"
German cabinet of militarists and
Prussian junkers, the nations for
eign policy will undergo a radical
shift to an alliance with France and
Poland against Soviet Russia.
Won Papen's real aims we're di-
vulged through the indiscretion OF
a member of a gentlemen's club
COMPOSED Of aristocrats, junkers and
a sprinkling of wealthy business
men who were very active in push
ing the removal of Chancellor
Bruening.
Returning from a jaunt to Paris
last year, Won Papen, vice-president
of the club, told the monocled gen
tlemen that Germany must drop her
pro- Russian policy and conclude an
economic alliance with France and
Poland for the purpose of destroy
ing the Soviet five-year plan.
Through the slight indiscretion
OF a gentleman present, the aims
of the present chancellor became
known to Berlin.
His Long Range Aim
Achievement of the chancellor's
aim is not possible overnight, but
il is known to be his long range
aim. 1t is understood on reliable
authority that when Immediately
after assuming the CHARACTERISTIC,
Won Papen announced that he
would continue the Bruening gov
ernment's foreign policy, he meant
primarily that the German dele
cation to Lausanne would reiterate
Bruening's refusal to pay repara-
tions.
Wilhelmstrasse is even consider
ing telling the world that Germany's
plight will soon necessitate annul-
ment of perhaps five and half
billion dollars worth of long and
short term private foreign debts,
besides cancellation of reparations.
The vital parts of Won Papen's
diplomatic methods differ radically
from those OF all his postwar pre-
decessors in the chancellorship, who
were determined to play the Soviet
trump against the Versailles treaty,
and who maintained close political,
economic and military intercourse
with Moscow.
In Kultur League
Won Papen has been known for a
long time as a member of the So
called league for the protection of
western kultur Ga predominantly
Catholic and Russian organi-
zation) and belongs to several
Franco German committees. Be-
sides, he has participated in nu-
merous clandestine conferences with
French politicians and industrial
lists.
Chancellor Bruening, addressing
the reichstag May IL, warned a
German politician, who remained
unnamed, against secretly telling
important foreigners that the COM
ing German government would be
more ready to make concessions
than the Bruening regime. This
mysterious admonition was aimed
at Won Papen's backstairs meeting
with French industrialistS at Lux
embourg few days before.
The diplomatic corps heard that
Won Papen and his minister of de-
Tense, General Kurt Won Schleicher,
took French Ambassador Francois
Poncet into their confidence at least
a month ago, after which the am
bassador hurried to Paris and ad-
vised his government of the i'm
pending coup of army leaders and
junkers against Bruening.
Alliance Held Essential
In the discussion at Van Papens
club, in which he first revealed his
aims, he admitted that an alliance
against Russia would necessitate
temporary remuneration and revision
of the German Polish border agree
ment and said that under those con-
ditions, France would consent to
Germany's rearming. Arnold Rech-
berg, potash magnate, told Won
Papen that a political and military
alliance with France was essential.
Won Papen added that German
reliance on Britain was impossible
due to the influence of French
finance in England. The United
States he said, would recover a
voice in the worlds big political de-
cisions only after the presidential
election.
Paradoxically, the ultra national
il Won Papen cabinet is more anx-
ious to come to terms with France
than Bruening's government, and
expects Premier Herriot to be re-
placed by Tardieu, who is expected
to be more amenable to Won Papen's