Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Jakob Wassermann, 60, Bavarian-Jewish novelist (The World's Illusion, The Goose Man, Doctor Kerkhoven, Caspar Hauser, Faber, My Life as German and Jew); of angina pectoris; in Altaussee, Austria. First-ranking German writer, he produced novels that were powerful, involved, mystical. He was proscribed and exiled by German Nazidom...
Other characters in the picture play include Edith Mera, Andree LaFayette, Samson Fainscilber, and Harry Baur. Edith Mera is to play the part of Milady, the spy of Dumas' novel. Andree LaFayette will take the part of Anne of Austria, while Escande will characterize Cardinal Richelieu...
...lawyer combed Austria by telephone and telegraph for his last hope, Catholic President Wilhelm Miklas. Locating him in the far Alps opening a new mountain railway, he begged the President to stretch the boy's life beyond the allotted three hours. As pious in a crisis as Chancellor Dollfuss, President Miklas went to mass, spent half an hour alone praying for Divine guidance...
...This war, if precipitated, would probably see England, France, and Italy lined up with the United States in pro-Russian sentiment, while Germany and Austria in all likelihood would favor Japan. This, of course, is largely a matter of conjecture...
Meanwhile Austria's nimble little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss had apologized to the German Minister in Vienna for Schumacher's death. Faced with Dictator Hitler's shrewd appeal to the native Germanism of Austrians, Dictator Dollfuss protested that he was doing "everything to bring about swift and complete clarification of this sad occurrence." His preliminary findings showed that Private Schumacher had unwittingly crossed the border...