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...Philip Hofer, 36, Harvardman (1921), curator of the Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library, honorary curator of the Widener Library and of the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard, was appointed Assistant Director of the Morgan Library in Manhattan...
...beginning of last week Franz Hofer, Nazi leader for the Tyrol and Vorarlberg, was a political prisoner in Innsbruck jail. One midnight two men in the grey .Norfolk jackets of the anti-Nazi Heimwehr drove up to the jail with a prisoner handcuffed between them...
...weeks before. He opened the gates. The fake Heimwehr men suddenly dropped the handcuffs, snapped out blackjacks and sponges soaked in chloroform. Chief Warden Ludwig rushed down to help, was overpowered too. At pistol-point they snatched the keys from the warden's terrified wife, rushed Leader Hofer to a waiting automobile. In ten minutes every frontier post was warned. Shrewdly the Nazis did not make for the heavily-guarded Bavarian border, but for Italy, 20 miles away. On the Brenner Pass road an Austrian gendarme tried to stop them, was nearly run down, fired at the car, struck...
Assistance. Hofer, Weber and Lessing were just what the Dollfuss Government needed to point up the Hitler menace to the peace of Europe, and it used them to the hilt. Quickly came the little Chan- cellor's reward. Worried Italy, France, Britain gave Austria permission to increase her regular army of 22,000 men to 30,000, the full strength allowed under the Treaty of St. Germain, "as long as the special conditions exist." as long as Adolf Hitler is Chancellor of Germany. Permission included a good deal more than adding another 8,000 men to Austria...
...skill. In medieval Nuremberg, home of Die Meistersinger and Albrecht Durer, scene of the first public Nazi review, yet another huge Nazi fiesta was under way. Bands blew their lungs out, flags fluttered from every housefront, tens of thousands of Nazis tramped their feet sore. Innsbruck's Franz Hofer was carried to the reviewing stand on a stretcher and fireworks were set off with such complete disregard of the consequences that 50 people were rushed to hospitals, hundreds fainted...