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...reformatories are momentarily exhausted, there is always the Archduke Ferdinand and the affair at Sarajevo. With this as a starting point, Storm at Daybreak relates the tragic romance of a man who falls in love with his best friend's wife, played to the limit against an Austro-Serbian background and splendidly directed by Richard Boleslavsky...
Last week Chancellor Dollfuss and his Minister of Justice Kurt Schuschnigg journeyed to Rome, were separately received by Pope Pius. Following their audiences came word that a new Austro-Vatican concordat had been signed, providing that 1) Bishops must be approved by the Austrian Government; 2) Religious marriages will be recognized by the Government as legal; 3) Doctrinal education will be entrusted to the church...
...grey, re-emerge in the gallant blue of the old K.u.K (Kaiserliche und Königliche) Armee, long vanished from the modern world except in Hollywood cinemas. Such a uniform, besides snubbing Germany, would remind Hungarians that they had once marched beside Austrians in that uniform, would suggest an Austro-Hungarian combine...
...Edward VII of Great Britain from whom he learned English. Regarded as conservative, Schober was trusted and liked by the anti-Marxists, the nervous bourgeoisie and the Jews, especially during the years immediately following the War. Famed for negotiating with Dr. Julius Curtius, then German Foreign Minister, the Austro-German customs union (Zoll- verein), which ultimately was declared illegal by the World Court, Dr. Schober was known as the statesman who in 1931 "helped disturb the peace of Europe." His death followed by some three weeks that of his equally famed political rival, Mgr. Ignaz Seipel...
...animals are as prolific as the musquash. They breed three or four times a year; spring litters are frequently propagating by autumn. Before Great Britain was the sad example of the late Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1905 five muskrats were taken from the U. S. to Prague. By 1914 their descendants had spread 90 mi. in every direction. In 1927 they covered half of Austria, had invaded Germany, were estimated to number 100 millions...