Word: austrian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...price for freedom. Austria pledged the Russians that it would remain "neutral." Chancellor Julius Raab argued that this meant not only military neutrality but also "ideological neutrality," and ordered the Austrian press and radio not to say anything that might annoy the Communists. If everybody spoke the Communists fair, he argued, the Russians might scale down the reparations exacted under the state treaty. Raab carried this notion so far that a commentator was cut off the government-controlled radio for giving a mildly pro-Western account of the Geneva Conference...
...Debrett's and Burke's but listed under the name of a relative, the Earl of Westmeath. Nugent further explained that his family's patriotism was the cause of all the trouble. An Irish ancestor named Walter Nugent served with other relatives in the Austrian army and was made Baron Nugent of Clonlost by the Emperor Franz Josef in 1859. When the first baron's descendants returned to England, the title was authenticated by a royal warrant signed by Britain's Edward VII in 1908. But with the advent of World War I, Nugent...
...London, the confusion seemed as impenetrable as in Hollywood. Said one expert on the peerage: "If you recognize the validity of the Austrian title, I shouldn't see why it would matter. Is Farouk Mr. Farouk because he lost his kingdom?" But a spokesman for Burke's ruled sternly: "Until the title is formally restored, it cannot be recognized in Britain." In Hollywood, TV Producer Jack Elliott, who is putting together the Baron Nugent-Vicki Benet series, took a meat-and-potatoes view of the case: "The show has been put off until this thing gets cleared...
...institute's director is an Austrian-born Jew who became a Roman Catholic priest: the Rev. John M. Oesterreicher, 51. Father Oesterreicher worked to further Jewish-Christian understanding in Europe before he was forced to flee the Nazis during World War II. In 1953 he founded the institute with the encouragement of some of the top Catholic scholars in the U.S. and abroad. One result: The Bridge, a Yearbook of Judaeo-Christian Studies (Pantheon; $3.95), the first in a series that will review the relationship between Christians and Jews in history, philosophy, theology, the arts...
...whole year of Mozartish festivities. Salzburg's musical coup last week: a rare performance of his opera La Finta Semplice, composed when Mozart was too young (12) to understand its labyrinthine plot or its Italian words. Chancellor Julius Raab pledged that his country would never let another promising Austrian musician starve...