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...Austria's late Chancellor Seipel was a Monsignor, France's late great Richelieu a Cardinal...
...Kurt von Schuschnigg, the last Chancellor of independent Austria, exhumed the bodies of two predecessors, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel and Engelbert Dollfuss, and placed them in elaborate bronze sarcophagi at the Church of Christ the King, in Vienna. Last week the Nazis ordered the bodies reburied in their original graves. Official Nazi reason: "The public objects to seeing these coffins exhibited in a place of worship." Nazis forgot to mention that since the Anschluss the public has not been allowed to enter the crypt...
...Fordham University, Father Svensson's arrival last week was eventful. The erect, twinkling-eyed Icelander turned out to be wearing the fedora hat of the late great priest-chancellor of Austria, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, with whom Father Svensson lived in Vienna and at whose death the Jesuit was present. Fordham's Jesuits made a quick deal with their colleague, bought him a new hat and acquired Monsignor Seipel's for the University museum...
...Obrenovitch of Serbia. In the elaborate neo-Byzantine Kara-Georgevitch family tomb on the hill of Oplenatz murdered Alexander of Jugoslavia, in his Austrian sarcophagus, will soon lie. From their catalog, Julius Maschner & Son chose the same model coffin as those they recently completed for former Chancellors Dollfuss and Seipel of Austria. All they had to do was remove the Roman crucifix from the lid and replace it with a Serbian Orthodox cross, applique the Jugoslav royal arms and a silver name plate. There were also a few minor adjustments to be made to be sure that it would...
Bratislava. All through the fighting, leader of the Socialist forces was dumpy Dr. Julius Deutsch, Minister of War in Austria's first Republican Cabinet and ancient adversary of her Catholic Chancellor, the late great Mgr. Ignaz Seipel. The New York Times's sympathetic G. E. R. Gedye found him safe at Bratislava, just over the Czechoslovak border, guarded by a cordon of Czech Socialists from attempted assassination. A ricocheted bullet in his left eye left Dr. Deutsch so blind that he could only see the outline of objects. He was sick, exhausted, but eager to talk...