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...Nice, dark, scowling Ernst Rüdiger Prinz von Starhemberg, ex-Vice Chancellor of Austria, ex-leader of the Austrian Heimwehr, exile, proposed to ask the French Government's permission to recruit an Austrian regiment for service in the French Army. The morale of Austrians who were now forced to fight in German ranks, he added hopefully, "must...
...friend Dollfuss, Kurt von Schuschnigg saw 13 Nazis hanged. Soon he was recognized by those shrewd judges of character, Pope Pius and Premier Mussolini, as a statesman of commanding powers. He proved his ability by maneuvering out of the Austrian Vice-Chancellorship famed fun-loving Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, who once had an Austrian private political army of 125,000, aspired to the Austrian Throne. Pious Kurt von Schuschnigg long wished to restore "His Most Apostolic Majesty Kaiser Otto von Habsburg." This week, however, Otto's goose appeared definitely cooked...
Greater aristocrats even than the Habsburgs in the eyes of many Austrians are the Starhembergs. A few years ago Ernst Rüdiger Prince von Starhemberg, the dashing, amiable head of the House of Star-hemberg-whose ancestors helped save Austria from the Turks in 1693-was not only Vice-Chancellor of Austria but favored to become Regent. He had run out of money of his own to pay his immense private army, the Heimwehr, but was receiving more cash regularly from Premier Mussolini. Suddenly the Prince proceeded to make almost as much of a mess as did Edward VIII...
...able to make this move because the 120,000 irregular "troops" of the Austrian Heimwehr had fortnight ago divided in a split so drastic that Vienna Heimwehr Leader Major Emil Fey last week actually challenged to a duel the aristocratic founder of the Heimwehr, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg. Sly Dr. Schuschnigg has for months been taking discreet measures to under mine the Prince's power and last spring jockeyed him out of the post of Vice-Chancellor (TIME, May 26). When...
Austria's 37-year-old Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, direct descendant of one of the twelve original families of the Holy Roman Empire of antiquity, and today Dictator Mussolini's smooth-cheeked stooge in Austria, has his political ups & downs. One of his "downs" was to be expelled by Chancellor Schuschnigg last May from the Austrian Government in which he had been Vice-Chancellor. Last week he was still commander of the Heimwehr, chief private armed force in the country, and able to throw a spanner or two into governmental machinery. Provincial leaders...