Word: auersperg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austrian Socialists by letting out of jail their beloved leader, Dr. Karl Seitz, for years Mayor of Vienna. His health has been failing fast and seemingly the Government feared popular indignation should he die imprisoned. Looking worn and broken, 65-year-old Socialist Seitz was spirited secretly to the Auersperg sanatorium. There two detectives were stationed at his bedside and two police men set to guard the door of his private ward. "I am a poor schoolteacher on a pension," wailed Dr. Seitz's wife, "and they tell me I must pay for these guards or my husband will...