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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL ‍4, 1940.

VON PAPEN BUYS BEANS FOR LUNCH

Yes, it's Von Papen himself. Last face the Fuehrer's wrath for having time I saw him was when he asked failed to prevent it.

me to tea at the former German Lega- tion in Vienna a few days after the Anschluss, And here I am again within a few yards of him in Ankara, but with the barrier of a state of war between us.

CLEVER OR FOOLISH However, Papen is used to failure. in He failed as Military Attache Washington at the outset of the last war, when he inadvertently provided the British Secret Service with a set It is in the public market-Oriental of cheque-book counterfoils contain- sabotage in design, modern in execution, con- ing the names of German

United States. He sisting of rows of neat little shops agents in the round a colonnaded courtyard. He is failed as Chancellor of Germany. He with Fraulein Margit, his fair-haired | failed in the attempt to make poli- eldest daughter, closely inspecting tical use of Hitler, and instead helped spring vegetables on a stall.

him to supreme power. No mistaking his sunburnt,

Anyway, here he is

bright moustached face with its lively eyes, spring morning, selecting salads for or his still slender figure and bear- his lunch, and looking cheerful and ing that make up what the Germans call the "light-cavalry type."

grey-

He is turning over the beans and carrots with the attention of an ex- pert.. It seems a rather odd occupa- tion for an Ambassador, but I sup- pose that all Germans take a great interest in food now.

Until the first of this month Von Papen himself was posting 35lb. of it from here each week to friends in Germany, and had organised a sys- tem by which 1,500 parcels weighing up to 5lb. were mailed every day to German addresses. The Turks have stopped all that.

HE SURVIVES

Let us study from a discreet dis- tance this man whose career has been so politically adventurous that when anyone asks him what he did under the Nazi regime he will be entitled to reply in the words by which the French politician, the Abbe Sleyes, summed up his own achievements during the French Revolution-"I

survived!"

-By-

this

G. WARD PRICE

in

carefree as I have ever seen him~~~ this man who so narrowly escaped the fate that befell 1,200 others the great Nazi "purge" of June 30, 1934, and whose Counsellor of Em- bassy was found drowned a few days after the Anschluss with Austria in circumstances that suggested Gestapo work.

Is Von Papen a clever, if unlucky, to man who acts in a foolish way mask his real game? Is he a foolish, but lucky, man who does not per- ceive the dangers into which he has so repeatedly plunged? I have often. wondered.

gone Supposing I had

up and spoken to him? What would he have done?

to

"I would have laid you three He has come down-town from his one he would have been most cordial new Ankara residence on the low and hearty," said a diplomat to whom hills outside the far-spreading Tur-I put that question. "He would have kish capital. This was formerly the told you just what he is telling Czech Legation, and Von Papen would everybody here that the war will never have got it if the Czech Minis- end in a compromise peace within ter, in March 1939,, had not been a

two months. Sudeten German and at once volun- tarily submitted to the authority of the German Government.

Freiherr von Papen rides every morning with the eldest or youngest of his daughters. The middle one is a nurse at the German Hospital in Istanbul, and does not like horses to the perplexity of her "light-cavalry" parent.

"That is the stock propaganda talk of the German Legation. They don't believe it, of course, but they say it so as to discourage the Turks from continuing their work or military preparation and from carrying out the complicated business of switching over to Britain and to France that 75 per cent. of their foreign trade which used to go to Germany and Polish to the former Austrian and territories."

The youngest one, together with Frau von Papon and the Von Papen son, who is in business and was until

I know that Von Papen bows po- lately in Shanghai, have just gone litely to members of the British Em- back to Germany. The son Franz bassy in the street, even though he came to Turkey via America when hardly knows them. All the Ger- the war began. His ship caught fire mans here do, and at a recent state off the coast of Spain, and he land-ball given by the Turkish Govern- ed there in a lifeboat, continuing his ment, secretaries of the German Em- journey to Ankara via Italy.

to

bassy were asking to be presented to I have met Frau von Papen. Dur- the wives of British diplomats who ing the Saar Plebiscite six years ago had come out since the war began.

at I was invited to take tea

the "What do you do?" I asked,

"Well, the correct diplomatic thing," Papens' country house, which stands In what is now No Man's Land be- I was told, "is to bow formally tween the Siegfried and Maginot enemy diplomats, but not to speak to Lines, so that when the German them, of course. However, one can't Ambassador went home last Novem- stop these Germans here. They rush ber he could not visit it.

up to you in a public place, seize you ask after your wife, by the hand, your dog, whether you like your new flat, and similar questions, as if noth- ing like a war had ever been heard (Continued on::Page: 1.1)

That did not grieve him much, for he had grimmer matters on his mind. Turkey had just signed her war alliance with Britain and France, and Von Papen was called to Berlin to

AW- GEE- PAW - YOU'VE MADE BABY PRECIOUS CRY-YOU MUST SAY SOMETHING

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