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Naturally Monsignor Seipel, Chancellor of Austria did not trumpet his proposal, last week, like a blatant babbitt. The Chancellor is by nature as silent as a turtle. Quietly he slipped off to Prague, Czechoslovak capital. There, last week, he conferred with Foreign Minister Dr. Eduard Benes, best-posted diplomat in Europe. Dr. Benes is known to favor moving the League war-extinguisher to a city near the inflammable Balkans. Presently close-lipped Chancellor Seipel said...
...statement more positive than this double negative would have given Switzer land ground for offense; but Chancellor Seipel had made his meaning crystal clear. He heads a Republican Government which would gladly offer to the League for a headquarters the old, enormous, sumptuous Imperial Palace of the Habsburgs at Vienna. Thus the League would save itself the expense of building a new headquarters at Geneva to replace the present ramshackle Secretariat and the mouldering Salle de la Reformation (where the Assembly sits). Reputedly the League has considered spending ?1,000,000 on its proposed new buildings and most of that...
Throughout the week Chancellor Seipel masked the import of his visit to Prague under the excuse that he was there to lecture on The World Outlook. This he dutifully did before a huge, enthusiastic audience in which sat and applauded Dr. Benes, biggest little statesman in Europe...
...temporarily, restrained from making a stage appearance by the City Council of Vienna which delayed and temporized when besought to issue a license by her manager. Finally, lest the powers of darkness should triumph, a deputation of rival Christian Socialists waited upon their great but dour leader, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, Chancellor of Austria, and besought him to "prevent the nude, brazen-faced and heathen dances of Fraeulein Josephine Baker from taking place anywhere in Austria." Chancellor Seipel, perhaps reliably informed that Miss Baker always wears some article of adornment when she dances, sternly cut short a Deputy who rose...
...distinguished visitors were met at the station by the leaders of the Austrian governmental hierarchy. A state luncheon followed, at which the German statesmen were formally introduced to Dr. Michael Hainisch, President of the Austrian Republic. In the evening the Chancellor, Dr. Ignaz Seipel, opened the old Imperial Foreign Office, also known as the Ballplatz, for an official reception...