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...Aires. Legitimate businessmen prospered; well-heeled opportunists fattened. Hard-eyed Fritz Mandl, fabulous Austrian munitions magnate and former husband of Hedy Lamarr, had a new and equally beautiful wife. Hand-in-glove with the militarists, he manufactured weapons the U.S. would not supply, and kept Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, exiled Austrian bullyboy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Bright Surface | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

Vienna playboy Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, who modernized and commanded Austria's Heimwehr, is now a lieutenant in the Free French Air Force, was rapped in the British Parliament last week as "the man who assassinated democracy in Austria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Autumn Roundup | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

Hard-eyed, scowling, exiled Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, onetime Vice Chancellor of Austria and leader of the fascist Heimwehr, after many an unsuccessful attempt to raise a pro-Ally Austrian legion, joined General Charles de Gaulle's Free French Air Force to fight against his onetime friends, the Nazis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 26, 1940 | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

...witty wisecracker, gay, with a talent for dramatics. But he stuck to soldiering faithfully, gained his lieutenancy in time for World War I. By bravery at Longwy and the Meuse, by luck at Verdun, he rose and survived to become a staff officer under Count Rüdiger von der Goltz, who in 1918 was sent to help Baron Mannerheim win Finland's independence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: 23 Days | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...them to fight on the Western Front if Britain and France will announce as one of their war aims "restoration of Austria as an inde pendent State." Already in France with a similar proposal was Austria's onetime Heimwehr troop leader and Vice Chancellor, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, onetime friend of Adolf Hitler, who recently ordered confiscated 13 castles in Austria belonging to the Prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Refugees | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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