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...Benes enjoys the particular friendship of new British Foreign Minister Sir Samuel Hoare and his newsorgan picked up in London a story peculiarly embarrassing to Austria's extremely pious Chancellor Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg who simply could not let Austrians read it lest he become a national laughing stock...
...orders from Berlin and Adolf Hitler is Austrian-born. Armed with this list, top-hatted, tail-coated Diplomat von Papen arrived at Austria's famed Ballhaus ("White House"), heavy with historic memories of Metternich and the Congress of Vienna. Very small in the big rooms looked Dr. Schuschnigg. With brutal directness the German Minister said that he "advised" the Schuschnigg Cabinet to resign and appoint as their successors the Nazi Cabinet slate approved by Herr Hitler. At this, so ran the story Dr. Benes' personal news-organ had from London, the Austrian Chancellor burst into tears, sobbing hysterically...
...Archduke Otto announce that he expects to return to Vienna not as Emperor but as "Regent in the name of my mother." This move of Zita's had the aroma of Papal diplomacy, fine and fragrant as musk. In Vienna the Catholic cohorts of Chancellor Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, ardent restorationists, have been sorely troubled because hot-headed Vice Chancellor Prince Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg, who commands an adventurous private army, has told them, in effect: "Of course I want Otto restored as Emperor, too. But Austria must not antagonize the Powers. It would be better to make me Regent...
Exceedingly devout, Dr. Schuschnigg, although hospitalized, insisted on arising three times to pray at his wife's coffin. Meanwhile, since Austria has hung on the brink of revolution ever since the assassination of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss (TIME, Aug. 6), hoary President Wilhelm Miklas in consternation summoned the Cabinet, while Vienna buzzed with rumors that Nazi agents had tampered with the steering gear of the Schuschnigg automobile...
Died. Frau Herma Schuschnigg, 34, wife of Austria's Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg; in an automobile accident; near Linz, Austria...