Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: TIME, issue of Sept. 25, under title Austria, errs in details in otherwise excellent article. Bundeskanzler Dollfuss did not earn ". . . the Edelweiss embroidered collar tabs, the capercailzie plumes of a First Lieutenant." He did. however, earn the two silver stars of a First Lieutenant. Stars on the collar tabs denote rank in the Austrian army. Edelweiss and "caper-cailzie" plumes are an integral part of the 14th Army Corps, the Edelweisskorps, H. Q Innsbruck, Tyrol, of the old Imperial & Royal Army. . Peasant upbringing and uncertain antecedents were no handicap to promotion to First Lieutenant in the "extremely aristocratic army...
Harvard's faculty boasts two ex-finance ministers of Austria. The latest one, not Professor Schumpeter, went abroad last summer, climbed up into "high official circles" and was given the finance portfolio. He cabled at once to University Hall for a year's leave of absence, which was granted. That was early in September. Late in the same month his government was defeated in parliament, and he was turned out of office. Did he hop off on a year's tour of the world, with pay? He did not. He returned to Cambridge, and wistfully offered himself up for humbled...
...Adolf Hitler looming over Conductor Bruno Walter aroused the week's big demonstration. Bruno Walter (real name: Schlesinger) was first of the Jewish musicians to lose his job last spring in Germany. A conductor without an orchestra, he has drifted around since then, giving guest performances in Holland, Austria, London. Impressed with his martyrdom Philharmonic subscribers, who usually save their hero-worship for Toscanini. stood up when the big. kindly German came on stage, clapped him louder and longer than they ever clap his sensitive, scholarly performances. Beethoven and Brahms-Walter's program last week -were painstakingly conservative...
...abrupt withdrawal from the League on Saturday was not calculated to calm the anxious breast or still the palpitations of the fearful heart. Paris rose into the frenzy of Gallic jitters while Italy was officially shocked and Great Britain did its best to ignore the alarum. Dollfuss's Austria feverishly hastened its process of covering the northern border with a maze of barbed-wire, and Russian wondered whether she would be squeezed between the two outlaws, Germany and Japan...
...argument reads something like this: "War at the moment would be disastrous for me: but after a year of busy bootlegging of arms and consolidation of resources behind our army--well, we shall see what we shall see." He may also have meant: a year may give us Austria as well, and serve to divide our enemies against themselves. Europe has some reason, then, to question pacific proposals backed up by a philosophy which regards peace as a regrettable interval between two wars...