Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case of Joseph Strecker, Austrian born and a confessed onetime Communist. His contention that he is entitled to citizenship since Communist Party membership does not imply advocacy of violent tactics, accepted by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, has been appealed to the Supreme Court...
Vigorously denied by Nazi police last week was the report that their No. 1 Prisoner, former Austrian Chancellor Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg, is so broken in health that he cannot be brought to trial. Prisoner Schuschnigg is in a "depressed state," the police admitted, but he will be tried in a few months before a special court on the charge of violating the Austrian Constitution. Likely sentence: Exile. "Germany's dignity," soberly cracked the police, would not allow his execution or sentence to a long jail term...
Meanwhile from Paris came the first detailed account of Dr. Schuschnigg's six-month confinement. According to Dr. Martin Fuchs, former Austrian Chargé d'Affaires in Paris and friend of the jailed Chancellor, Dr. Schuschnigg is now held in a tiny bedroom under the eaves of Vienna's Hotel Metropole, a stuffy, ten-foot-square cell containing only a bed, table, chair and a burly Storm Trooper who never leaves the room. "He has altered in appearance terribly. He is emaciated. His eyes are haggard. They will not let him have a razor...
When the German army crossed the Austrian border last March, incorporated Austria into the Reich, OE3AH sat at his radio apparatus in Schloss Sonnberg filling his log with records of the short-wave contacts he was making for a high score in an international DX contest. A week after the contest closed, a London Exchange Telegraph dispatch reported that Archduke Anton von Habsburg, brother-in-law of Rumania's King Carol, had been arrested and sent to a concentration camp because of the discovery of a "secret radio station" in his home. That news (despite prompt newspaper denials...
Last week in the September QST was published a letter from Archduke Anton, denying that he had ever been arrested, referring to the Anschluss only as "the great event." Wrote Archduke Anton: "The incorporation of the Austrian amateurs into the D. A. S. D. was accomplished in the friendliest manner and with great consideration towards us. I myself, as ex-president of the Oe. V. S. V., have been intrusted with the reorganization of the ex-Oe hams and have been named 'Landes Verbandsführer der Donaulande' that is to say: 'Leader of the association...