Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first feast of signatures was spread on a yellow-tapestried table in the Gobelin Hall of old Belvedere Palace, Vienna. In these halls once roared the voice of Eugen of Savoy, one of the Habsburgs' greatest warriors. Here strode Archduke Franz Ferdinand before Sarajevo. Here whispered poor Kurt von Schuschnigg, last Chancellor of independent Austria. Here also the architects of the New Order redrew the designs of Czecho-Slovakia (Nov. 2, 1938) and Rumania...
...play his own music, talked politics with Prince Bismarck, had audiences with Queen Victoria and Ulysses S. Grant. As a student in Paris he saw the Commune of 1871 and learned liberalism in its laboratory. His public services were those which would have made five men great: Minister to Vienna and Berlin, president of the Privy Council, vice president of the House of Peers, twice Minister of Education, four times Foreign Minister, twice Premier, and chief delegate of Japan to the Paris Peace Conference. He helped draft Japan's liberal constitution. But his greatest service was as Genro-adviser...
LAST TRAIN OUT-E. Phillips Oppenheim-Little, Brown ($2). Topical soufflé in which the crackle of shirt fronts is indistinguishable from the machine-gun fire in Vienna's streets. Usual cast of beautiful baroness, British Intelligence officer, sexy American redhead, all milling around because Nazi invaders want the person and art collection of a rich...
...table of the Foreign Relations Committee room will come the little golden plate, stamped with his name. In the leather chair where he presided, where he wrestled out foreign problems with the late William E. Borah, will sit a new chairman-almost certain to be Walter F. George, of Vienna...
...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...