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...Dollfuss' Breakfast
Sirs: TIME, issue of Sept. 25, under title Austria, errs in details in otherwise excellent article. Bundeskanzler Dollfuss did not earn ". . . the Edelweiss embroidered collar tabs, the capercailzie plumes of a First Lieutenant." He did. however, earn the two silver stars of a First Lieutenant. Stars on the collar tabs denote rank in the Austrian army. Edelweiss and "caper-cailzie" plumes are an integral part of the 14th Army Corps, the Edelweisskorps, H. Q Innsbruck, Tyrol, of the old Imperial & Royal Army. . Peasant upbringing and uncertain antecedents were no handicap to promotion to First Lieutenant in the "extremely aristocratic army...
TIME did not mean to imply that the potato soup & whipped cream with which Chancellor Dollfuss bulwarked himself after a night of fasting & prayer was his usual breakfast. It is his favorite dish. On milder mornings he takes a standard Wiener Frühstück-coffee with whipped cream, crescent rolls (Kipfel), jam, one boiled egg.-ED. Ethical Bacardi Sirs...
...would be another thing. Zita told him last week that Britain and France were looking at Otto as at least a possible last resort to stop the spread of Nazism southward from Germany. What, King Victor Emanuel asked, of that potent little Nazi-stopper, Austria's Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss who emerged nearly intact last fortnight from a point-blank meeting with an assassin? Zita produced the strange new argument of Austrian Royalists: If Dollfuss were killed, there is no second Dollfuss to take his place. If her son, King-Emperor Otto, were killed, a replacement would be fixed...
...atmosphere, Germany's abrupt withdrawal from the League on Saturday was not calculated to calm the anxious breast or still the palpitations of the fearful heart. Paris rose into the frenzy of Gallic jitters while Italy was officially shocked and Great Britain did its best to ignore the alarum. Dollfuss's Austria feverishly hastened its process of covering the northern border with a maze of barbed-wire, and Russian wondered whether she would be squeezed between the two outlaws, Germany and Japan...