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Though he formally retired from politics last Spring, though he was ostentatiously in Oslo, Norway, when his henchmen upset the last Austrian Cabinet beak-nosed Monsignor Ignaz Seipel received the Ministers Plenipotentiary of the Great Powers again last week in the same place and manner as he used to do when Chancellor?namely: at the Ballhausplatz, famed Austrian Foreign Office...
...What do you mean, Monsignor, by this new Cabinet?" asked in effect the agitated Corps Diplomatique. They alluded neither to the fact that the new Chancellor is Seipel Disciple Karl Vaugoin, nor to the fact that the new Foreign Minister is Monsignor Seipel himself, but to the astounding fact that the new Minister of Interior is Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg...
...crag above Linz, is well stocked with rifles, machine guns, ammunition.* Prince von Starhemberg in fine is the chieftain of Austria's irregular and reactionary Heimwehr, well drilled veterans of numerous bloody clashes with the equally irregular Socialist Schutzbund (TIME, Sept. 2, 1929 et seq.). That Monsignor Seipel and all he stands for should want Prince von Starhemberg to be Minister of Interior is a fact with the pregnancy of dynamite...
...face of things it merely seemed that several of aristocratic, van dyke-bearded Chancellor Johann Schober's cabinet members had quarreled with him one by one, had one by one resigned. Decisive was the resignation last week of Vice-Chancellor and Minister of Defense Carl Vaugoin, Seipel disciple and lay leader of the clerical party (Christian So-cialists). His reason: refusal by Chancellor Schober to countenance the appointment as President of the Austrian State Railways of another Seipel disciple, Herr Strafella...
With too many props kicked out from under them, Chancellor Schober and his remaining cabinet ministers resigned. Soon afterward, Monsignor Seipel was announced at Oslo to have taken airplane for Vienna. Meanwhile President Wilhelm Miklas of Austria had asked Seipel Disciple Vaugoin to try and form a cabinet...