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...during his two years as Minister to Austria. There he was so little able to conceal his dislike of Hitlerism that Nazis made threats to blow up the U. S. legation. A dictatorship of the proletariat is equally abhorrent to him and his sympathies were with the late Chancellor Dollfuss, an idol of his even when Dollfuss spilled buckets of blood in putting down the Socialist revolution in Austria. His enemies may question how well balanced George Earle's convictions are, but as a man with strong will to peace and to a fair deal for Labor...
...Pendennis involves much political talk, a skiing trip on which they light fiery crosses and evade the authorities, a night in a mountain cabin where the doctor ministers to a sick child, the bombing of a news paper office. Their idyll ends somewhat inconclusively with the assassination of Chancellor Dollfuss. Having left the doctor suddenly, become mixed up in homosexual circles in Vienna, Pendennis realizes that he will need her when she hears of the failure of the Nazi putsch, starts back for Feldbruck. They do not meet again...
...BURNING CACTUS - Stephen Spender - Random House ($2). Five short stories by an English poet, recording the suffering pulsations of sensitive young men-all strangely alike in temperament - in contemporary France, Spain, Italy, England and Austria at the time of the assassination of Dollfuss...
Austrian Surprise. Italy was raised definitely out of the "wop" class in 1934 when German moves to seize Austria, culminating in the Nazi assassination of plucky little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, caused Benito Mussolini to hurl Italian forces up to the Austrian frontier, warn Adolf Hitler by telephone to keep hands off and assume the protectorship of Austria, which Italy has maintained ever since...
...much verbosity dear to Teuton hearts. A basic ambiguity has always been that to Germans the very name of Germany is so closely related to that of Austria that the words and ideas are fluid and merge if one "thinks in German." Thus the late great Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria gave his life in maintaining its "independence" from Germany (TIME, Aug. 6, 1934), and yet he gave Austria a new Constitution with these words: "We Austrians are German and have a German country...