Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arms. Twice in a day they searched the house at Linz of Theodore Habicht, whom Hitler had blandly appointed Nazi "Inspector General for Austria." Fumed Herr Habicht: "Balkan methods!" and asked Hitler to make his house a German consulate. As such it would be extraterritorial, outside the jurisdiction of Austrian police. And Habicht made Dollfuss fume by charging that he had "begged" for an alliance with the Nazis for the autumn elections...
...night last week in Innsbruck near the border, Nazi students spied the car of Prince Aloyse Löwenstein-Wertheim-Ro-senberg, onetime German Catholic Centre Party official, refugee from German Naziism. On it they spied the black, red and gold Heimwehr (Austrian Fascists) pennant. Students surrounded the car, jumped on the running board, ripped off the pennant. Up rose Princess Löwenstein, pulled a revolver from her purse and began firing at random into the crowd. The students fled, the Prince drove...
Last week Chancellor Dollfuss and his Minister of Justice Kurt Schuschnigg journeyed to Rome, were separately received by Pope Pius. Following their audiences came word that a new Austro-Vatican concordat had been signed, providing that 1) Bishops must be approved by the Austrian Government; 2) Religious marriages will be recognized by the Government as legal; 3) Doctrinal education will be entrusted to the church...
...small square jaw, Dollfuss last, week took pains to tell New York Times Correspondent Frederick T. Birchall that he planned to fight to the finish against both "brown Bolshevism and red Bolshevism. ... A curious and impressive result of the Hitlerite propaganda here has been to awaken a distinctive Austrian national spirit. . . . Every time the word 'Austria' is mentioned it now evokes a cheer. . . . We would like Austria to exist as an object lesson to the world of German culture . . . that is not a menace but an inspiration...
...several years Dr. Snyder has toyed with the idea of a complete flying wing, experimenting with models affixed to the front or top of his automobile. A high-school teacher of mechanics helped him build a wind tunnel, and last year he picked up Raoul Joseph Hoffman, an Austrian engineer who came through South Bend peddling slide rules. Together they built the ARUP which is simply a parabolic wing of 19-ft. span with fuselage & engine inserted in the middle. Dr. Snyder claims for his ARUP higher speed, slower landing, greater lift, greater safety than those of a conventional airplane...