Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...funeral of the Austrian Chancellor, Engelbert Dollfuss, murdered by Nazi conspirators in 1934, hollow-eyed, handsome Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna, delivered a eulogy. Cardinal Innitzer described the killing as the "crime of a heathenish political group," flatly declared that "those who after these events are still supporting the Nazis are excluding themselves from civilization." When, four years later, Nazi conquerors rolled into Vienna, His Eminence allowed the swastika to fly over St. Stephen's Cathedral, signed a pastoral letter urging Austrian Catholics to vote Nazi in the subsequent plebiscite...
Although reproved by the Vatican for his "political Catholicism," Cardinal Innitzer for a time maintained a policy of conciliation toward the Nazis'. Lately, however, he has condemned Nazi marriage laws and the abolition of confessional schools as violations of the old Austrian concordat with the Holy...
Died. General Alfred Krauss, 76, outstanding Austrian strategist during the World War; of a paralytic stroke: in Giesern, Germany. Because General Krauss repeatedly urged union between Austria and Germany, he was elected a member of the Reichstag last March, when anschhiss was finally effected...
...Music Festival's 20th anniversary. Participating were twelve of the world's best-known chamber-music players, the famed Roth, Gordon and Kolisch Quartets. On the list of new quartets and quintets to be chambered were recent works by U. S. Composers Frederick Jacobi and Louis Gruenberg, Austrian Composers Ernst Toch and Anton von Webern, British Composer Frank Bridge...
...part of the present Czechoslovak Republic ever belonged to Imperial Germany. Konrad Henlein and over 99% of all Sudeten Germans alive before the Republic was founded were born subjects of the Habsburg Kaiser, not the Hohenzollern. Henlein's mother was a Czech, but to him, as to Austrian-born Hitler, there has never been any doubt that Germany is "home...