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...peace pact. Highlight was an article by U.S. Communist Author Howard (Citizen Tom Paine) Fast. Said Fast: "It is suspected that a sharp fall of shares [after the pact] was not entirely accidental, and in two of the most conscienceless New York newspapers there was provocation for a Fascist coup . . . Prices fell . . ." But after the great day, Novelist Fast saw triumph at last for the Pink and Red press that plies its trade on the eastern seaboard. "Two big New York dailies, formerly reactionary, joined with the [New York] Compass, the National Guardian and the Daily Worker to call...
Austria's prewar democracy had many pallbearers, but the most prominent, after Adolf Hitler, was a good-looking young blueblood named Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg. He was a fascist when the world barely knew what the word meant. In 1923, he stood by Hitler's side in the unsuccessful Munich beer hall Putsch. Back in Austria, he was fond of bleating such sentiments as: "We have much in common with the German Nazis . . . Austria will go fascist sooner or later. Better sooner than later . . . Asiatic heads [meaning Jews] will soon roll in the sands...
Starhemberg in the '30s seemed to be riding the wave of the future. But he made one great error. At a time when Hitler and Mussolini were still at odds, he chose the wrong fascist as his patron. With Mussolini footing the bills, he fought the Nazi Anschluss. When the "Nazis finally took over the Austria that he had so diligently weakened, one of their first acts was to confiscate the Starhemberg castles and estates...
...prince next popped up in 1940 wearing the uniform of De Gaulle's Free French air force. Soon afterward he went to Argentina, where he teamed with old friend Fritz Mandl, onetime Austrian munitions-maker who had also bet on the wrong fascist. Mandl, now doing business with Peron, put Starhemberg up in style, but the prince yearned for his own acres...
Last week, for a while, he came close to getting them back. Acting under a law restoring property confiscated by the Nazis, the Austrian courts ruled that the pioneer fascist was a victim of the fascists and ordered the return to him of 18 castles, hundreds of dwellings, mines, vineyards, 21,000 fertile acres-worth, in all, over...