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...almost eight years and under three presidents (Harding, Coolidge, Hoover), Albert Henry Washburn served with outstanding, remarkable success as U. S. Minister to Austria. Death came to him last week in Vienna and all Austria mourned a potent friend, the champion who had fought to put through the League of Nations' International Loan ($126,000,000) which saved Austria from fiscal collapse...
...rich man, a man of exceedingly slow and ponderous speech masking deep, deliberate mental operations, Mr. Washburn (Cornell '89) began his career as a U. S. consul at Magdeburg. Germany. Then he became secretary to the late, great Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. From this he passed through two U. S. appointeeships to a well-paid legal practice in New York. He was ready (like John North Willys whom President Hoover has just sent to Poland) to retire from money-making when President Harding sent him to Austria...
...north in Germany was Glass Man Alanson Bigelow Houghton, to the south in Hungary was Judge Theodore Brentano, the other two excellent Harding appointees to the "enemy countries." Mr. Washburn survived them both in diplomacy, though they survive him in life...
...Minister Washburn considered it his duty and made it his hobby to obtain a profound grasp of all the secret machinations and counter-machinations of the Socialist and Reactionary irregular armies in Austria: the Schutzbund and the Heimwher. During Vienna's "Red Revolution" in 1927, when the capital was cut off by railway and telegraph strikes from the world, and when Italy was itching to use the excuse of "revolution" to intervene, Mr. Washburn saw that such a coup could best be prevented by smuggling out of the facts, the news. He and another U. S. Minister...
...Washburn's well-pondered opinion that: "The irregular armies of Austria can mobilize more rapidly, with a superior armament and a greater striking power than is possessed by the lawful forces of the Republic...