Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Darkly and deviously the secret struggle between Catholic Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg and Fascist Vice Chancellor Prince Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg for control of the Austrian Cabinet continued last week amid smoking newspaper headlines. Prince von Starhemberg started matters off last month by waiting until Chancellor Schuschnigg was in Italy to crack wide open the scandal of the failure of Jewish-controlled Vienna Phoenix Life Insurance Co. His plain purpose in smearing this $150.000,000 bankruptcy through the Press was to whip up anti-Semitism in Vienna, cause a Cabinet crisis that would allow his Heimwehr to take over...
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...Austrians, proudly celebrating the same anniversary in Vienna last week, this was a cruel cut. Eugene of Savoy, neither German nor Austrian, was born in France and raised in Louis XIV's court. Louis despised Eugene's big-nostriled face, crooked little frame, cold, dogged stare.' refused him a French commission. Eugene at 20 helped the Austrians turn back one of the last Turkish offensives in Europe and remained to become, at 34, Austrian Imperial Field Marshal. Allied with Britain's Marlborough and with the Germans, Eugene thoroughly spanked the armies of his onetime sovereign...
...confused with Austrian Author Stefan Zweig, no kin (Conflicts, Amok, Marie Antoinette, Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles...
Final and important departure of Mr. Shaw's Bury the Dead from Mr. Chlumberg's Miracle at Verdun is the Brooklynite's scornful refusal to lead his cadavers back to the grave as the cynical Austrian did. On the contrary, the hopeful curtain of Bury the Dead falls on men marching off the battlefields...