Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Austria and Hungary are admittedly hardest pressed. In Vienna last week the Governor of the Bank of Austria, Van-dyke-bearded Dr. Richard Reisch, took abrupt and super-miserly steps to keep not only Austrian money but Austrians at home...
...hrer-Foreign correspondents are prone to make too much of the fact that Adolf Hitler was born in Austria, that he has never established his right to German citizenship. As a matter of fact Adolf Hitler was born just 62 mi. due east of Munich in the Austrian frontier town of Braunau and always considered himself more Bavarian than Austrian. Fascist Hitler discourages reference to his early life, not because there was anything shameful about it, but merely because it was not sufficiently romantic for Der Führer, the Leader of the Nazis. His father was a customs inspector. Young...
...beginning of the War he lost his Austrian citizenship by enlisting in the German Army as a private, served with distinction, was once wounded and once gassed. He left the trenches firmly convinced that Germany's defeat and the breakdown of the Empire were due to the Communists and Jewish profiteers...
...birth, however, a reunion of dowdy royalty takes place at Frau Lucher's hotel, where once nothing was too good for them. Habsburg and ex-mistress attend. In Frau Lucher many a spectator could catch the likeness of eccentric old Anita Sacher, at whose Viennese hostelry defunct Austrian nobility used to be lavishly entertained free of charge to the envy and sometimes inconvenience of more wealthy paying guests...
...Meeting in caucus outside the House, Laborites re-elected as Party Leader "Uncle Arthur" Henderson who has lost his seat. For the time being Uncle Arthur is in the same boat as "Handsome Adolf" Hitler, leader of the German Opposition who cannot enter the Reichstag because he is an Austrian...