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...Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg [Vice Chancellor of Austria, TIME, Feb. 10| . . . likes his wine and his women. But no one has ever seen him indulge in the former to excess. He is much too anxious to curry favor for himself and Austria in foreign capitals to have so far forgotten himself at George's funeral. And I don't care where your information to the contrary came from. I have studied the subject too much not to know that this...
Otto came rushing to be in Paris while the Vice Chancellor of Austria, pudgy, loose-lipped Prince Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg, who is strongly suspected of wishing to have himself proclaimed Regent, conferred last week with new French Foreign Minister, Pierre Etienne Flandin. In outward profession Starhemberg is an adherent of Otto, but there was every indication that the Prince was highly delighted to hear from M. Flandin last week that France still opposes any Hapsburg restoration. While Otto gloomed, Starhemberg expansively led the retinue of French detectives by whom he was surrounded on evenings of wine, women & warbling...
...exalted persons who tarried briefly in London last week after walking sedately behind the coffin of His late Majesty (TIME, Feb. 3), two scandalized their British hosts by behaving as thoroughgoing rounders & bounders. One was the Vice-Chancellor of Austria, Prince von Starhemberg, who raised altogether too many British beakers during the week to impress favorably British bankers from whom he sought a loan for his anti-Nazi "Fatherland Front." The other was His Majesty King Carol II of Rumania, "The Horrible Hohenzollern...
...becomes more like the country it models - I mean France, that admirable woman! I cannot but feel the brother of all French men. France and Rumania! One can say they are two countries with a single heart." In London meanwhile a sober departure was taken by Prince von Starhemberg. Said he: "I greatly treasure the talk I had with Mr. Stanley Baldwin...
...Major Fey's private army, the Vienna Heimwehr, paraded in honor of Minister of Interior & Public Security Fey. Next day, with Prince von Starhemberg at his elbow, Chancellor Schuschnigg told Minister Fey. as he had often told him before, that all Austria's private armies must be consolidated as a militia. As usual, Major Fey refused. Thereupon, the Chancellor handed President Miklas the Cabinet's resignations. Called right back to form a new Cabinet, Herr Schuschnigg had his list ready. It omitted Major Fey & friends. When Fey saw loyal Starhemberg Heimwehr regiments filling Vienna streets, he knew...