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HANNES SCHNEIDER'S school at St. Anton, Arlberg, is probably the most famous center for ski instruction in the world. To him have come King Albert of Belgium; Germany's finance minister, Dr. Schacht; Kurt Schuschnigg, dictator of Austria, and notables from every continent. One of his assistant instructors, Otto Lang, the author of "Downhill Skiing" will extend the Arlberg System to the slopes of Mount Rainier in Washington this winter...
...House of Habsburg gleamed on the banquet table in the Hall of Mirrors. Faded Habsburg livery was unpacked and donned by Austrian flunkies to wait upon the daughter of Europe's modern Caesar, Edda, Countess Ciano. Archdukes of the House of Habsburg came with Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, a devout Monarchist who would like to restore the Habsburgs with young Archduke Otto enthroned at Vienna as Emperor...
...plump young man has had difficulty in acquiring the mien of his father-in-law the Dictator, but has now learned to frown almost without visible effort. It was a proud moment when even the U. S., British and French ministers to Austria raised their wine glasses as Chancellor Schuschnigg proposed the toast to Mussolini's new Empire-even though these three diplomats set down their glasses without drinking...
Cried Chancellor Schuschnigg: "I wish His Excellency the Italian Foreign Minister to convey the best wishes of this gathering to His Majesty, the King of Italy and the Emperor of Ethiopia...
...Schuschnigg suddenly struck last week, Prince Starhemberg found himself so weak that instead of calling upon the Heimwehr to rise, he told these mercenary troopers: "Do not become traitors to the Heimwehr spirit by offering any resistance to the Government." Easy-going Viennese called this Prince Starhemberg's "political abdication" and his easy-going Heimwehr submitted quietly to being dissolved, inasmuch as they were offered a chance to join up at similar pay as members of the new Dictator's own so-called Front Militia. These sweeping changes occupied Chancellor Schuschnigg the whole night. By dawn the Schuschnigg...