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They were. But Monsignor Seipel met the situation. Prince von Starhemberg, whose words had only one meaning, was made to say that he had been "misunderstood." Seipel Disciple Vaugoin said...
Though he formally retired from politics last Spring, though he was ostentatiously in Oslo, Norway, when his henchmen upset the last Austrian Cabinet beak-nosed Monsignor Ignaz Seipel received the Ministers Plenipotentiary of the Great Powers again last week in the same place and manner as he used to do when Chancellor?namely: at the Ballhausplatz, famed Austrian Foreign Office...
...What do you mean, Monsignor, by this new Cabinet?" asked in effect the agitated Corps Diplomatique. They alluded neither to the fact that the new Chancellor is Seipel Disciple Karl Vaugoin, nor to the fact that the new Foreign Minister is Monsignor Seipel himself, but to the astounding fact that the new Minister of Interior is Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg...
...perched on a crag above Linz, is well stocked with rifles, machine guns, ammunition.* Prince von Starhemberg in fine is the chieftain of Austria's irregular and reactionary Heimwehr, well drilled veterans of numerous bloody clashes with the equally irregular Socialist Schutzbund (TIME, Sept. 2, 1929 et seq.). That Monsignor Seipel and all he stands for should want Prince von Starhemberg to be Minister of Interior is a fact with the pregnancy of dynamite...
Double Cross? What did this mean? The Corps Diplomatique hoped it did not mean that Monsignor Seipel was ready to plunge Austria into civil war. Out of such a conflict might come restoration of the Throne of Austria to famed "Little Otto," the Habsburg pretender styled "His Most Catholic Majesty the Emperor and King" ? but were not things becoming somewhat too premature and crude...