Word: peasant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work. He runs three social settlements, aids a leper colony, maintains a research bureau, heads a great organization of consumers', producers' and credit cooperatives. Many a Japanese, including himself, wears a "Kagawa suit" which costs $3 (winter model) or $1.35 (summer). Kagawa founded the Farmer-Peasant Party, has sat in the Japanese Diet as its only outspoken radical. The Government used to put him in jail for helping strikers and stirring up the populace. He would smile amiably, preach to anyone who listened, continue writing books. Like the Mahatma Gandhi, Kagawa keeps a day of silence every week...
...what the Dollfuss Government needed. A great memorial exhibition was set up in Vienna's Belvedere Palace, full of hats, gloves, maps, swords and other relics of Prince Eugene and Count von Starhemberg. Colored prints and picture books were issued. In mountain villages prizes were given for Austrian peasant costumes. Orators made speeches. And it worked. Week by week, hundreds of serious young Austrians who had felt that the only hope for their country was immediate political and economic union with Germany, have felt increasing affection for their own red-&-white-striped banner...
Little Engelbert Dollfuss got his fill of mountains. He served 37 months at the front (six times as much active service as the average U. S. soldier saw), won himself a string of decorations and the edelweiss embroidered collar tabs, the capercailzie plumes of a First Lieutenant.* Considering his peasant upbringing and uncertain antecedents, this promotion, in the extremely aristocratic army of Franz Josef, was a notable achievement. For months at a time Lieut. Dollfuss and his men held a tiny valley in the Dolomites against the Italian advance. Natives near Trent still call it Dollfussthal (Dollfuss Valley...
Winkler. President of the Agrarian League that put Chancellor Dollfuss in office is Vice Chancellor Franz Winkler, leader of the Dollfuss' peasant adherents. Dr. Winkler and his followers join with the Heimwehr in opposing Naziism and Socialism, but they fear a permanent Fascist dictatorship for a special reason. The Heimwehr is an aristocratic institution, backed by Austria's great landowners. Should Austria's incessant crises ever end the Agrarian League would make the rights of peasant landowners its chief plank...
...Stranger Returns" is the romantic interpretation. In it Lionel Barrymore, slightly juvenile for his years, is the grand old man Storer, who saves from rapacious peasant "in-law" the land which rightfully belongs to his granddaughter, the last of the Storers, played by an over-tense and under-trained Miriam Hopkins. The photography is above average, script below par. Barrymore same as ever. Good entertainment...