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That night the Cabinet threw a barbed wire entanglement and a cordon of troops around the Ballhaus, retired within and hammered out a compromise which did all present much credit. Prince von Starhemberg agreed with President Miklas that Austria was not yet ready for a "Heimwehr Cabinet." Their pledge to carry on the Dollfuss tradition bound them, they felt, to pick a new Chancellor from his Catholic party and just after midnight they chose Dr. Schuschnigg, a seasoned lawyer-politician and, like Prince von Starhemberg a monarchist...
...voluntarily ceased to sing a few months before out of respect for the Nazi "Total State." Korps spirit boiled when Dr. Oskar Staebel, official Nazi student mentor, came out against student caps and the wearing of Korps colors on a narrow ribbon stretched like an ambassador's cordon across the breast...
Since the Reichstag Building mysteriously went up in flames soon after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor, Berlin's vast Kroll Opera House was pressed into service last week by Speaker Göring. In a quarter-mile-wide cordon around it he threw his police and black-jacketed S. S. Storm Troops. Sweating carpenters rushed up a huge banner over the impromptu Reichstag portals: WE FIGHT AND PRAY FOR ADOLF HITLER...
Seriously doubting the amicable relationship alluded to in the signature, the student in question, and with him his roommate, made all possible arrangements for repelling the visitor. In fact, a regular cordon of loyal Dunster House men patrolled up and down past the window for the better part of the night--enough to disrupt the best laid plans of the most desperate killer. The intended victim has not since slept in the bedroom, while his roommate has done so, only after erecting across the window a magnificent barricade consisting of his bureau stuffed with old clothes to deaden the force...
...Julius Deutsch, Minister of War in Austria's first Republican Cabinet and ancient adversary of her Catholic Chancellor, the late great Mgr. Ignaz Seipel. The New York Times's sympathetic G. E. R. Gedye found him safe at Bratislava, just over the Czechoslovak border, guarded by a cordon of Czech Socialists from attempted assassination. A ricocheted bullet in his left eye left Dr. Deutsch so blind that he could only see the outline of objects. He was sick, exhausted, but eager to talk...