Word: heimwehr
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Starhemberg, the dashing, amiable head of the House of Star-hemberg-whose ancestors helped save Austria from the Turks in 1693-was not only Vice-Chancellor of Austria but favored to become Regent. He had run out of money of his own to pay his immense private army, the Heimwehr, but was receiving more cash regularly from Premier Mussolini. Suddenly the Prince proceeded to make almost as much of a mess as did Edward VIII...
Annulled. The 1928 marriage of Ernst ^.iidiger, Prince von Starhemberg. 38, one-time Austrian Heimwehr leader, to Countess Maria Elizabeth von Salm-Reiffer-scheidt-Raitz, 29, by both religious and civil courts at Salzburg and Vienna. Proceedings have dragged on since 1935. when he Prince appealed for annulment because lis wife had borne no heirs to the Starhemberg estates (on which he now owes $60,000 tax arrears). Vienna rumor announced that he would be married this week to Actress Nora Gregor, a Max Reinhardt protegée, who has already given him a male heir...
...complete surprise to most Austrians, Dr. Schuschnigg was engaged in seizing supreme power for himself and his following of Catholic bigwigs by a drastic Cabinet decree in effect making the Chancellor a Dictator. He was able to make this move because the 120,000 irregular "troops" of the Austrian Heimwehr had fortnight ago divided in a split so drastic that Vienna Heimwehr Leader Major Emil Fey last week actually challenged to a duel the aristocratic founder of the Heimwehr, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg. Sly Dr. Schuschnigg has for months been taking discreet measures to under mine...
Schuschnigg suddenly struck last week, Prince Starhemberg found himself so weak that instead of calling upon the Heimwehr to rise, he told these mercenary troopers: "Do not become traitors to the Heimwehr spirit by offering any resistance to the Government." Easy-going Viennese called this Prince Starhemberg's "political abdication" and his easy-going Heimwehr submitted quietly to being dissolved, inasmuch as they were offered a chance to join up at similar pay as members of the new Dictator's own so-called Front Militia. These sweeping changes occupied Chancellor Schuschnigg the whole night. By dawn the Schuschnigg...
...antiquity, and today Dictator Mussolini's smooth-cheeked stooge in Austria, has his political ups & downs. One of his "downs" was to be expelled by Chancellor Schuschnigg last May from the Austrian Government in which he had been Vice-Chancellor. Last week he was still commander of the Heimwehr, chief private armed force in the country, and able to throw a spanner or two into governmental machinery. Provincial leaders of the Heimwehr, meeting to discuss their autumn program, had to decide whether to remain loyal to Starhemberg or transfer their allegiance to Starhemberg's former right hand...