Word: austrian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. René Kraus, 46, able Austrian émigré journalist, biographer (Winston Churchill, The Men Around, Churchill) and onetime politico (in Schuschnigg's pre-Anschluss "inner Cabinet"); after long illness; in Amityville...
...project of the Harvard Student Council, the Seminar is sponsored by a group of American educators in cooperation with the Austrian government, American military authorities, and the Commission of International Educational Reconstruction in Washington...
...bustards (and George Earle) have been practically forgotten in Pennsylvania. Last week, however, the Austrian Government had bustards on its mind. The Socialists had passed a law nationalizing hunting in the province of Carinthia. Large estates were to be subdivided into small parcels for the season, and one huntsman assigned to each by the authorities. Everyone, said the Socialists, deserved a chance in these hard times to shoot himself a bustard or a buck...
...Austrian Conservatives were madder than Pennsylvania Republicans. Hunters complained that, under the new measure, there would soon be no wildlife left in Carinthia. That, in turn, would badly affect Austria's future tourist business. The Communists, on the other hand, thought nationalization of hunting was a fine idea...
Last week, an Austrian court declared the law unconstitutional, on grounds that it alienated property rights and ran counter to national interest. Bustards, which make a sound between a croon and a boom when excited, could again breathe easy. But Carinthian Socialists were not discouraged. Next on their list for nationalization: fishing...