The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-26
Government Deal In
 Affairs Of Germany
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"Comrade Auwie". They use him as a campaign speaker, chiefly Tn workers districts, to demonstrate that all Germans, high and low are equal in the nazis' eyes.
 They never let Auwie openly ad- vocate restoration, although ne predicted in a recent speech that return to Germany and that the his father, the ex-kaiser, would third empire was Gin sight,.
 Won Schleicher, accused of at- tempting to bring back the ex- kaiser, is, at 50, one of the few s'younger" Germans listed among the intimate friends of President Paul von Hindenburg. The defense minister is the strongest man In .the von Papen ministry. He is credited with inspiring the presi. dent to oust the ministry of Hein- rich Bruening and pave the way for clapping the iron fist on the Prussian government.
 Won Schleicher was born at Brandenburg, the center of the dis trict under virtual martial law as proclaimed by the cabinet of which he Is a nfember. He entered Lich- terfelde, the German West Point, at the age of 12, and has worn a uniform ever since. He became a second lieutenant of guards in 1900. One of his fellow officers was Lieutenant Oskar von Hinden- burg, son of the field marshal.
 The association with the younger von Hindenburg led to friendship with the older.
 AA NU<4F chair officer" by sorle political en- emies, "desk gensrar by others. He went through the World war on the staff of the quartermaster general at headquagters, In a ca- pacity much resembling that of private secretary.
 After the armistice von Schleich- CT remained in the service of the quartermaster' department. His first political mission was to per- suade President Fritz Ebert to employ volunteer troops of the iold, imperial army to quell comn1un. ist uprisings in 1918 and 1919.
 Won Schleicher next persuaded the reich government to invest ex-' ecutive power in the army to force unruiy state governments to obey the reich's orders. Months in ad- vance, he planned the march of the reichswehr on Saxon'y. The mill. tary operations functioned with old time precision, and von schleicher was promoted "out of turn" to lieutenant colonel.
 Ministers of defense came and went, but won Schleicher remained at the key position. No promotions or dismi issals in the army were made without the permission of his office, which also worked out the reichswehr budget and the politi. cal policiesi of the ministry of de. fense.
 Won schieicher's activities came into the spotlight when he ar- irgs between Bruening and Hitler ranged the first "unofiicial" meet and between Bruening and the ex- crown prince. It Is still rumored that won Schleicher led army gen. erals who told Minister of Defense Wilhelm Groener to resign because he no longer possissed the army's confidence. n
 In November, 1918, 1t had been Groener's duty to tell Kaiser Will helm much the same thing.
 Franz Bracht, acting premier of Prussia under the Won Papen re- gime, telephoned all police chiefs in the state to-day. admonishing them to maintain order before and after elections. Police were in. structed to shoot unhcsitatingly when necessary. 8
 Bracht isued deere freeing all those arrested under the state of emergency, except those against whom charges already had been preferred.
 London, July 26-(UP)--Re. cent activities of ex.Kaiser WI. helm and visits of German mon. archists to WiIhelm's exile at Doorn have aroused concern among Dutch officials, the Hague corre- spondent of the Daily Mail re- ported to-day.
 Wilhelm's visitors included his son, the former crown prince, and several Germans known to favor the return of the Hohenzollerns. The situation was officially called to the attention of the government by labor and communist members of parliament, the Daily Mail said. Cologne, July 2e-(UP)-Hein- rich Fuchs, Nazi motor driver in- volved in fighting here in April in which the socialist deputy, Otto Wells, was attacked, shot and killed a republican in a nazi-republican brawl to-day. Fuchs and several other nazis were arrested.
 - Berlin, July 26-(UP) - Nazi demonstrators to-day disrupted d meeting of the republican Iron Front" organization at Freidrichs- koog. Schleswig- FIolstein. fatally stabbing one republican n q wounding several others.
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