Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once the residence of Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Salzburg in the Austrian Alps has held annual summer music festivals since the end of the War. Before recent years, this baroque little city attracted middle-sized international audiences who enjoyed its competent performances of plays and operas with German and Viennese casts, its remote picturesqueness, its calm. By last week, when it was in the midst of another summer season, noisy Salzburg had become definitely the place to go for thousands of U. S. and European tourists of high & low degree...
Pretty Maria is to marry Archduke Otto of Habsburg in case the Dictators decide on that young man's restoration as Austrian Emperor. But the Hitler luncheon last week was too internationally complex to be more than social. The Olympic Games, which had brought so many exalted persons to Berlin, had their own significance (see p. 37), but behind the German scenes last week the Nazis had joined deadly economic war with...
...place it is illegal to give the Nazi salute or sing Nazi songs in Austria. Moreover, Adolf Hitler has just made a pact with Kurt von Schuschnigg pledging Germany rigorously to abstain from interfering in the political affairs of Austria (TIME, July 20). On the strength of this agreement, Austrian amnesty was granted thousands of imprisoned Nazis. Last week these brawny fellows turned out to heckle Prince von Starhemberg and President Miklas. The Prince had the advantage of speaking into a microphone...
...continuing the Torch Relay without a torch, he scrambled quickly into an automobile, rode on to the next relay point. Re-lit, the flame crossed the Hungarian border at 6 a. m., reached Budapest in the evening. Next day, its progress through Austria was the occasion for a great Austrian Nazi demonstration (see p. 24). At Prague, Czechoslovakian President Eduard ("Europe's Smartest Little Statesman") Benes found in a change of runners the theme for a speech about Olympic Ideals and World Peace. Scrupulously photographed during its progress by members of the staff of 150 cameramen who are helping...
Married. Francesca Lindenthal, daughter of the late famed Austrian-born Bridge Builder Gustav Lindenthal (Hell Gate, Manhattan, Queensboro); and Engineer Hans Renz, of Stockholm, Sweden; in Metuchen...