Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Is there any reason why, because the recently deceased wife of the Austrian actor, Oscar Homolka,* happened to be a Baroness Hatvany, TIME should leap to the conclusion that it must be the former wife of Baron Ludwig Hatvany, better known to the world as the playwright and novelist, Christa Winsloe? ..." The Baroness Vally Hatvany was a young actress, and. according to your own report was 24 years old, which should immediately have cast doubts in your mind on her identity with Miss Winsloe, whose famous play and film Maedchen in Uniform appeared in Germany...
...night last week German Austrian storm troopers loaded 51 Jews, including an 82-year-old rabbi, into a Danube river launch, took them downstream to the point where Austria, Czechoslovakia and Hungary meet. There they dumped them on a stone breakwater in the middle of the swollen stream. All night they crouched on cold, slippery stones barely emerging from the water...
...success of the Austrian coup has set a new tone for the German minority. Under present circumstances Konrad Henlein's demands will tend to be unacceptable. Thus conflict in Czechoslovakia will become latent. The 'liberator' can then be called in the moment expert timing makes such a move possible," added the author of "Government in the Third Reich...
Last week Bishop Galen was visiting in Rome. Five days before the Austrian plebiscite (see p. 23), he was drafted by the Holy See to do a diplomatic job of work on a colleague-Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna. Cardinal Innitzer and the Austrian bishops had admonished Austrian Catholics to vote Ja in the plebiscite, had subscribed that admonition with a fervent "Heil Hitler" (TIME, April 11). The Pope summoned Cardinal Innitzer to the Vatican for an explanation...
...German State Railway (Deutsche Reichsbahn), world's largest system,* all tracks, rolling stock and property of the 3,628-mile Austrian State Railways. Said an official announcement from the German Railroads Information Office, which last week closed all U. S. bureaus of the Austrian State Tourist Department: "The rejoicing of Austria and the happiness of the Austrian and German people over their long desired reunion will also be a boon to travelers: the dark clouds of political uncertainty have drifted away...