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...Germany and Premier of Prussia but their minds were on other things. Lean-jawed Col. von Papen and blustering, full-blooded Capt. Goring darted from one ancient palace to the next, from the Vatican to the Air Ministry, to Il Duce's office. Shortly stumpy little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria came roaring over the Alps in an airplane and started a similar round of visits on his own. Hurrying to Rome to see what it was all about came Istvan Antal, press chief of Hungary and special representative of Premier Gombos, Foreign Minister Giuseppe Motta of Switzerland...
...begins to sniffle, wonders whether he is catching cold. In Vienna there were undeniable sniffles of Hitlerism. Under banners reading EIN VOLK-EIN REICH! ("One People-One Nation!") a crowd of 20,000 Viennese National Socialists (Nazis) gathered to cheer their leader, Herr Alfred Frauenfeld, as he roared: "Not Engelbert Dollfuss but Adolf Hitler is our Chancellor...
...revelations of a secret joint note from France and Britain to Austria demanding that the 50,000 Hirtenberg guns be either destroyed or shipped back to Italy (TIME, Feb. 27). Il Duce's protests at this "ultimatum" did not change the fact that the Austrian government of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss is dependent on French and British loans. The Chancellor prepared to knuckle down to his big creditors...
...London fortnight ago the House of Commons voted, after much grumbling, to lend 100,000,000 schillings ($14,000,000) to Austria, this being Great Britain's share of the League loan totaling $43,000,000 to the Government of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss (TIME, Jan. 2). The Netherlands had meanwhile voted its share. Last week in Paris Premier Paul-Boncour asked the Chamber & Senate to chip in France's 100,000,000 schillings. Was this quite ethical...
...broadcast operas. To the U. S. radio audience, it was briefly exciting ? speeches by NBC's President Merlin Hall Aylesworth and Board Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath of the Metropolitan, sounds of the orchestra tuning up under Conductor Karl Riedel, echoes of an audience which included many pleased youngsters. Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel was the opera, first whole performance to be broadcast from the Metropolitan. Composer Deems Taylor, official narrator, sat in a little glass booth in one of the grand tier boxes, describing music and action to radiauditors. In another soundproof booth were an expert with score...