Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they have often done before, Austrian and Hungarian Monarchists met in Vienna for a conference, but for the first time in years were allowed to talk to the Press. Baron von Wiesner. who presided, was said to have declared: "The law passed by the former Socialist Government, banishing the Habsburgs from Austria, will be rescinded by the Cabinet within a month. The former Empress and Emperor Otto will return as soon as practicable...
...shout only "morning pa- per" or "evening paper." Finally he got the Cortes to allow him 27,000 more Civil and Assault Guards and got a vote of con- fidence for his Cabinet, 148 to 24. To Alfonso Bourbon y Asturias, no longer King of Spain but still an Austrian Archduke. Duke of Burgundy and Count of Habsburg. all this was but a faint rumor. Last week he was deep in the Sudan, hunting lion and buffalo. He had a bad moment when a native police patrol mistook his party for Abyssinian bandits. Alfonso stopped their fire by shouting...
Three days before last week's Berlin premiere of Catherine the Great, British-made cinema in which Elizabeth Bergner, Austrian-born Jewess, plays the young queen (TIME, Feb. 19), Minister of Propaganda Paul Joseph Goebbels issued a pro- nouncement: "Non-Aryans who had disappeared and who had apparently, for the most part fled abroad, are again appearing in German theatres. ... It must not come to this, that the public takes to self-help to defend itself. . . ." To make the pronouncement plainer, Dr. Goebbels' newspaper, Der Angriff, published an article which flayed Jewish actors in general and Elizabeth Bergner...
...which is better known under its own name, continued to pile up profits. Alemite Corp. now makes lubricating systems for 99% of all automobiles produced. Many of Alemite's gadgets were developed by a tall, thin, long-nosed inventor named Oscar Ulysses Zerk, who once served in the Austrian army. When Alemite took over certain of Mr. Zerk's patents, it also took over Mr. Zerk. Inventor Zerk fiddled around in Stewart-Warner's laboratories for five years without much encouragement. When his contract expired in 1929, the company offered him $25,000 per year...
Ostensibly, these conferences are held only in order to alleviate the economic plight of Austria and Hungary by the formation of more favorable trade relations with Italy; no other power, it seems, is willing to take this step which is necessary if Austrian independence is to be maintained; hence Italy has nobly and altruistically come to the rescue quite devoid of any nordid ambitions. That this is pure buncombe it is hardly necessary to point out. What has happened is simply that Mussolini has seen that this is the opportunity of a lifetime to institute a defensive alliance with Austria...