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...last week obese Nazi Air Minister Hermann Wilhelm Goring strove fretfully in Vienna to kill time, loitering in shops unrecognized. When he tried to inspect the Habsburg Treasures, an unimpressed attendant told him to come back at an hour when they would be open to the public. The reason why General Goring was thus dawdling in Vienna turned out afterward to be because of an elaborate ruse devised by the German Minister to the Austrian Republic, scheming Franz von Papen. It was his idea that Goring should as if by chance happen to appear on the Vienna station platform just...
Pretty Maria is to marry Archduke Otto of Habsburg in case the Dictators decide on that young man's restoration as Austrian Emperor. But the Hitler luncheon last week was too internationally complex to be more than social. The Olympic Games, which had brought so many exalted persons to Berlin, had their own significance (see p. 37), but behind the German scenes last week the Nazis had joined deadly economic war with...
...beauties of the Pact of Berchtesgaden is that its authors simply feel they know what it means and are well pleased if any foreigners do not. Habsburg supporters of Archduke Otto were at first wild with fury last week, taking the Pact to mean that their candidate will not be restored as Emperor of Austria for 25 years. Then some of them took to looking wise and asking mysteriously: "Or does it not mean something else, perhaps the opposite...
...breach between Austrian Chancellor von Schuschnigg and Vice Chancellor von Starhemberg was widened early in May when the vice chancellor refused to (1 agree to the return of the Habsburg heir, 2 support the Chancellor's move to effect an Austro-German union, 3 support a treaty of mutual assistance with Italy, 4 disband the Heimwehr, 5 resign his office...
...business since the proxy fight with Boxmaker Brunt, President Paepcke says, "It's gone along nicely." Blond, athletic, Habsburg-handsome, he lives with his wife and three daughters on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive, weekends at his 600-acre farm on Somonauk Creek outside of Chicago. Mrs. Elizabeth Nitze Paepcke goes in for stage designing for Junior League plays...