Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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ZERO HOUR-Richard Freund-Oxford ($2.50). Still another book about Europe today, by a journalist Austrian-born, German-bred. English-ripened...
...stopped when the plane spewed a trail of smoke. They gasped when the skywriter left a huge, white woolly Communist hammer & sickle floating over Austria's capital. The little black biplane then flew on to suburban Modling, traced the initials U.S.S.R. against the blue. Up went six slow Austrian army planes in pursuit. Audaciously the skywriter jazzed the municipal airport, disappeared, leaving the army flyers to their humiliation, the populace to speculate on the motive for the deed. Some patriots thought the scribbling pilot was a German agent provocateur sent up to bolster the Nazi thesis that Czechoslovakia...
...until 5 a. m. Meanwhile the Duke of Windsor said good-by to his sister, Princess Mary, the Princess Royal (TIME, Feb. 15), who returned to the United Kingdom. A typically Viennese press sensation burst when one of Windsor's telegrams to London was secured and Austrian papers scare-headed that he had "ordered sent out from England the magnificent white horse on which he used to ride as King and Emperor." Actually the Duke had telegraphed an order for some whiskey, "White Horse" brand...
...discovered, was a seething mass of anachronisms, misgovernment, discontent. To get a better idea of how the land lay, see which fences needed mending most, he began making the rounds of his property. On some of these trips he took Sisi with him. In the Italian provinces, where Austrian misrule was worst, even the paid hands would not clap the royal owners. At the Scala in Milan, the audience had to be commanded to attend, under penalty of fines: the aristocrats sent their servants to fill the seats. Sisi's charm and beauty made some impression on the scowling...
...MOONS RIDEOVER-Carl Zuckmayer-Viking ($2.50). Smoothly written, movingly sentimental, pleasantly profound tale of a temperamental household of castle-dwellers in the Austrian Tyrol...