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...very tall, stoop-shouldered, beak-nosed Chancellor of Austria, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, unexpectedly assumed last week a somewhat malignant role, as he strove to grasp powers verging on the dictatorial...
Twenty-four hours before election the announced position of the four major Austrian parties was that they would support the passage of a Constitutional amendment permitting President Hainisch to be elected for a third term. This was Chancellor Seipel's own program. Suddenly Monsignor Seipel scrapped his original program. He proposed not another four-year term but an unprecedented one-year term for President Hainisch. During this one year drastic Constitutional amendments would be drafted and passed, endowing the President with quasi-dictatorial powers and quadrupling his present paltry salary of about $100 weekly...
...Belgrade last week returned King Alexander of Jugoslavia and spouse Queen Marie. Their eldest son, Crown Prince Peter, 5, was at the station, in care of Prime Minister Monsignor Koroshetz, and giggled gleefully, perhaps at King Alexander who has just shaved off his royal mustache...
Next December a National Council, composed of members of both houses of the Austrian Parliament will quietly elect a President. His duties are only by courtesy executive. The acting Chief Executive is the Prime Minister (Monsignor Ignaz Seipel...
...Rector of Louvain University, Monsignor Ladeuze, proposed to Mr. Whitney Warren, the U. S. architect, whose inscription has been rejected, that a bust of Architect Warren shall be placed in the new Library and shall be sportingly inscribed : "Praenobilis Americae filius Warren ingenio cordeque perfecit. (Warren, the most noble son of America, completed [this library] by his genius and heart...