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...Austria last week the Schuschnigg Government blandly asked the Austro- American Magnesite Corp. for a "voluntary gift" of 200,000 schillings...
Another change was to restore in Austria the Habsburg Imperial anthem and uniforms. Today when in full dress an officer in the army of Austrian President Wilhelm Miklas can barely be distinguished from an officer of Kaiser Franz Josef. When Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg of Austria recently conferred with Premier Mussolini he vowed afterward that "even the name Habsburg was not mentioned." but no Italian doubted last week that Il Duce had merely found it more convenient to sav "Otto...
...Duce needed all his trust in armies as keepers of the peace last week, for away from the blank cartridges of the maneuvers, he was still playing with Austria's political dynamite. In the face of the surly, worried opposition of the Little Entente, owl-eyed Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, new Chancellor of Austria, arrived in Florence for an interview like those that Benito Mussolini and the late Engelbert Dollfuss used to hold. At the railway station Il Duce met his guest in an all-purpose costume consisting of brown sack suit, riding boots and yachting cap. Most of his staff...
Quickly Dr. Schuschnigg was whisked off by Il Duce to the Villa de Marinis, to sit at a long elaborate luncheon with 14 Fascist bigwigs. At the same time Il Duce's son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, herded foreign correspondents into the Florentine prefecture, repeated over and over again that there would be no discussion of the restoration of Archduke Otto in Austria. He handed out an official communique. Excerpts...
Seers and oracles studying this jumble of words decided that it meant that the restoration of Otto was a card still a long way up Benito's sleeve, and that Italy was worried about unconfirmed rumors to the effect that the Schuschnigg Government was softening toward the former Social Democrats...