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...July an unforeseen situation [the assassination of Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria] developed which was similar to that which prevailed in 1914. If we had not sent our divisions to the frontier, complications might have resulted that could not have been settled save by the voice of cannon...
...cartridges of the maneuvers, he was still playing with Austria's political dynamite. In the face of the surly, worried opposition of the Little Entente, owl-eyed Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, new Chancellor of Austria, arrived in Florence for an interview like those that Benito Mussolini and the late Engelbert Dollfuss used to hold. At the railway station Il Duce met his guest in an all-purpose costume consisting of brown sack suit, riding boots and yachting cap. Most of his staff, during a lull in their enforced tour of duty with the troops, were still in uniform. A gay note...
...group of musicians decided to enlarge the Mozart festivals to include the works of other composers, converted the old Winter Riding School into the Festspielhaus, to seat 1,400. From its opening month ago with Bruno Walter conducting the Eroica funeral march in honor of murdered Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, the Festival has sounded a steady crescendo of enthusiasm. The climax everyone wanted to hear arrived last week when Toscanini picked up his baton before the Vienna Philharmonic. In honor of Mozart, he opened his program with the D Major Symphony. Salzburg audiences this year have showered flowers on Mengelberg, applauded...
...Government claimed to possess proof last week that Director Apold would have received a portfolio in the Nazi Cabinet expected to be formed in Austria, after Dollfuss' assassination, by the late Chancellor's treacherous Minister to Italy. Dr. Anton Rintelen who sought to commit suicide when the insurrection failed. Dr. Rintelen was convalescent last week and Director Apold was supposed to know something about an attempt by Nazis to kidnap Rintelen out of his hospital ''because he knows too much." This attempt Vienna police foiled in time's nick. Last week Director Apold...
More than 500 Austrians died in the civil war which Nazis started in Styria Province at the signal of a bullet fired into heroic little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss' spinal cord (TIME, Aug. 6). Last week the new Government of stern, thrifty Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg took the amazing step of compelling one man to pay the entire cost of Styria's civil...