Word: frau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tragic afternoon Frau Alwine Dollfuss, safe at Riccione on the Adriatic as the house guest of Donna Rachele Mussolini, showed her babies, Rudolf and Eva, how to make sand pies. She had taken them in to supper and put them sleepily to bed before she learned that in Vienna 144 brutal young men had contrived the assassination of her husband in a manner which, said the outraged London Times, "makes the name of Nazi stink in the nostrils of the world...
There were tears in Benito Mussolini's eyes as he put Frau Dollfuss aboard an airplane in which she insisted upon dashing to her husband's bier. Wordlessly Il Duce gripped her hand. He knew that she expects a child within five months. Cried Donna Rachele, weeping as she kissed Frau Dollfuss goodby: "I will take good care of your children. Come back to us soon...
...ultimatum expired a shattering blast wrecked the important power station of Opponitz in Lower Austria, stopped every streetcar in Vienna for an hour until another power station could be hooked up to serve the capital. Minor bombs were popping all over Austria. To the railway station sped Chancellor, frau and children. Their train snorted toward Italy. At the frontier Chancellor Dollfuss, a pious believer in Providence, got off and prepared to go back to Vienna...
...will be safe where you are going," he told Frau Dollfuss, kissed her and waved goodby. Safely next morning Frau Dollfuss and kinder arrived at Riccione to be house guests in the safest little seaside villa in all Italy, that occupied by Her Excellency* Rachele Mussolini, portly and placid wife of Il Duce. Later this month, if all goes well, the two Dictators will join their wives for a week-end conference at Riccione, the third personal conference in a year of Mussolini and Dollfuss (TIME, Aug. 28; March 26). In Vienna the little Chancellor announced: "Austria's foreign policy...
...have orders from above!" they barked. Pushing aside the Chaplain and General von Hammerstein, they seized the coffins of General and Frau von Schleicher and carted them off. Other Secret Police chased mourners away from the empty graves. For 48 hours the von Schleicher family knew not what had become of their dead. Then more Secret Police arrived...