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Died. Robert Stolz, 94, prolific Austrian-born composer; in West Berlin. Once considered the musical heir of Johann Strauss Jr., Stolz wrote some 50 operettas, 100 film scores and 2,000 songs, including Two Hearts in Three-Quarter Time, whose tune he scribbled on a menu in the early 1930s while sitting in Vienna's famed Cafe Sacher...
...seismic collapse of Europe in 1914 brought on the modern age of political assassinations. Russia's Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin had already been killed in 1911 by Dimitri Bogrov, who may have been acting as a revolutionary or a police agent. Then Serbian nationalists assassinated Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand-a dissident act that brought on the first World...
Hitler's myriad executioners sometimes operated abroad. One early victim was Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, killed in 1934 by Austrian Nazis. A Croatian secret society called the Ustachis, with possible assistance from Mussolini's and Hitler's governments, killed French Foreign Minister Jean Louis Barthou and King Alexander of Yugoslavia in Marseille...
...arose as different peoples asserted their right to speak in (and be governed in) their ancestral tongue. Language (the "mother tongue"), as Nietzsche observed, became the common test of peoplehood, of nationality-and of the legitimate range of government. Impassioned nationalists, like the Italian Giuseppe Mazzini, demanded that the Austrian Empire and other motley empires be dismembered. People were thought to be like different species of plants, each of which could grow properly only in its own ancestral habitat...
Determined to avoid any incident that might mar the first meeting between Ford and Sadat, Austrian officials mounted a massive watch over the Salzburg sessions. More than 2,200 Austrian police and security men were mobilized, to add to the small armies of plainclothesmen that Ford and Sadat were bringing. Armored cars and armed soldiers ringed Salzburg's airport, and detecting devices were strung around the airport to ward off intruders...