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With him was his "socialist dog," born under Prince von Starhemberg's Fascist guns in 1934, which had accompanied Gedye through all his travels. Due back with him shortly, too, is blond, fortyish Madame Lepper, ex-Austrian civil servant, British by marriage, who started as Gedye's secretary, is now almost his collaborator...
...Fritz was immersed in the family arms business. His firm had a sharp reputation for circumventing the restrictions of the Allied Control Commissions. His own politics were opportunistic. Democracy, he said, "is a luxury that might be borne, perhaps, in prosperous periods." He backed Prince Ernst Riidiger von Starhemberg and his fascist Home Guard, bet on Dollfuss and Mussolini to stave off Hitler. In 1937 he saw the handwriting on the wall, deftly transferred his holdings abroad...
...businessmen prospered; well-heeled opportunists fattened. Hard-eyed Fritz Mandl, fabulous Austrian munitions magnate and former husband of Hedy Lamarr, had a new and equally beautiful wife. Hand-in-glove with the militarists, he manufactured weapons the U.S. would not supply, and kept Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, exiled Austrian bullyboy...
Vienna playboy Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, who modernized and commanded Austria's Heimwehr, is now a lieutenant in the Free French Air Force, was rapped in the British Parliament last week as "the man who assassinated democracy in Austria...
Hard-eyed, scowling, exiled Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, onetime Vice Chancellor of Austria and leader of the fascist Heimwehr, after many an unsuccessful attempt to raise a pro-Ally Austrian legion, joined General Charles de Gaulle's Free French Air Force to fight against his onetime friends, the Nazis...