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...conference in Budapest, symbolic of the other Fascist moves last week, went Premier Mussolini's son-in-law, Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano; keen, Jesuit-trained Chancellor Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg of Austria; and, as host, Hungarian Foreign Minister Kalman de Kanya. Unfortunately for them, Austria and Hungary are no longer so important to Italy as they seemed when they were the only sizable satellites II Duce could get to revolve around Rome. In recent months Yugoslavia has come under strong Italian influence (TiME, Dec. 20 et ante) and Germany, the planet at the other end of the self...
...Important for the immediate future was a communique in which Chancellor Schuschnigg and Foreign Minister de Kanya declared that "if the League of Nations should become an ideological group" then Austria and Hungary will have to "revise their relations" with it. These guarded words referred to the possibility that the League, now that it lacks Germany, Italy and Japan, may come to be considered as primarily a Democratic alliance opposed to Fascism. The Swiss Government has already served notice that the League cannot remain at Geneva if it loses its universal character. Reason: The neutral Swiss dare not let their...
...Austria is deeply Catholic and wise Rome was unwilling to annul the marriage of a Vice-Chancellor of Austria so that he might marry an actress. II Duce esteemed that the Pope was right, shut off the flow of Italian money to the Prince, and Catholic Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg of Austria neatly wangled Starhemberg out of his Vice-Chancellory. After that Rome annulled Starhemberg's marriage (TIME...
...imprisoned, crowds roared "Viva II Duce!" and he shouted back "Viva Trento!" The train chuffed on, stopped for several hours in the mountains during the night to give the Dictator a better chance for sound sleep, finally entered Austria where the Cabinet of doughty Chancellor Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg was almost frantic at the outside chance of assassination. Some 4,300 Austrian soldiers stood along the 100 miles of railway line, backs to the Mussolini special, eyes roving as they gripped their rifles, under orders to '''shoot to kill without question anyone suspected of bombing, shooting...
Masses are seldom applauded, but the audience including Austria's pious Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg, clapped and cheered after the vigorous Hosanna, again when the work was finished...