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...dawdling in Vienna turned out afterward to be because of an elaborate ruse devised by the German Minister to the Austrian Republic, scheming Franz von Papen. It was his idea that Goring should as if by chance happen to appear on the Vienna station platform just as Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg was about to depart for Budapest to attend the funeral of Hungarian Premier Julius Gombos. The Chancellor would then be obliged, as a matter of courtesy, to invite Goring into his private car, and when they alighted together at Budapest it would appear that Dr. Schuschnigg was hand in glove...
This piece of elephantine German clever ness came to naught when pious little Chancellor Schuschnigg never did show up on the station platform and disgruntled General Goring climbed into his sleeping car berth grunting curses at von Papen's scheme. Unknown to the Germans and as a complete surprise to most Austrians, Dr. Schuschnigg was engaged in seizing supreme power for himself and his following of Catholic bigwigs by a drastic Cabinet decree in effect making the Chancellor a Dictator. He was able to make this move because the 120,000 irregular "troops" of the Austrian Heimwehr had fortnight...
...Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, direct descendant of one of the twelve original families of the Holy Roman Empire of antiquity, and today Dictator Mussolini's smooth-cheeked stooge in Austria, has his political ups & downs. One of his "downs" was to be expelled by Chancellor Schuschnigg last May from the Austrian Government in which he had been Vice-Chancellor. Last week he was still commander of the Heimwehr, chief private armed force in the country, and able to throw a spanner or two into governmental machinery. Provincial leaders of the Heimwehr, meeting to discuss their autumn...
...Maendler. When he heard who Miss Pessl was, Herr Maendler vowed he would build her a famous harpsichord, set to work immediately on his return to Munich. Another summer's adventure occurred when she played at Salzburg for Austria's President Wilhelm Miklas and Chancellor Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg who pronounced Miss Pessl's Haydn concerto EntzÜckend. Last week Yella Pessl an nounced her present ambition to "shoot" New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia with her minicamera...
...official round of duty took King Edward VIII to the British Indian pavilion at the Vienna Fair, to President Wilhelm Miklas of Austria and to Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg. He went nightly to the State Opera or ballet with Mrs. Simpson and daily with Mrs. Simpson to the office of Herr Professor Doktor Heinrich Neumann who last year treated the Prince of Wales for inflammation of the middle ear, this year took X-rays of King Edward's ears, treated them for the after-effects of a cold. The local British Legation issued twittery communiques which tended to alarm public...