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...Heimwehr, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg's private fascist army back in the late '20s; in 1930 he took the famous Heimwehr oath, ". . . We reject the democratic western Parliament . . ."; in 1938 he served briefly in the pro-Nazi cabinet appointed by Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg to appease Hitler, and took on the job of aligning Austria's economy with Germany's rearmament plan. During World War II, while Figl and other anti-Nazis were in concentration camps, Raab was free and an engineer for an Austrian road-building firm...
...Kurt von Schuschnigg, 50, pre-Anschluss chancellor of Austria, won a job lecturing at St. Louis University...
...Kurt von Schuschnigg, 49, last Chancellor of Austria before Hitler moved in, arrived in Manhattan from Italy with wife Vera and six-year-old daughter Cissy, promptly headed for Brooklyn, declaring his hope to settle there. A visitor for two months last spring, he now returned, said he, as "a refugee, a displaced person." His plan for the future? "To live a quiet life...
Died. René Kraus, 46, able Austrian émigré journalist, biographer (Winston Churchill, The Men Around, Churchill) and onetime politico (in Schuschnigg's pre-Anschluss "inner Cabinet"); after long illness; in Amityville...
Chancellor under Renner is Leopold Figl, of the Catholic Volkspartei (People's Party). The party is the direct descendant of Dollfuss' and Schuschnigg's Christian Socialists, though it now favors (still a little halfheartedly) nationalization of key industries and has been purged (at least officially) of fascists. Despite public political friendship, Figl does not get on well with Renner. Unlike Socialist Renner, who comes from a bourgeois family but has lived it down, Figl comes from peasant stock and tries to live up to it. He has a peasant's stubborn strength and stubborn limitations, along...