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...Colossal is the word for Prentiss Ingraham's (1843-1904) prolificity. His career supplied him with material aplenty. A soldier of fortune, he fought in the Civil War, under Juarez in Mexico, in the Austro-Prussian War, in Crete, in Africa, in Cuba. He wrote more than 600 novels, twelve plays-''without distinction [but] . . . written in a surprisingly correct and easy fashion and . . . wholesome in their general teachings." Napoleon's writings had a more disturbing effect...
Hungarian troops and planes invaded Slovakia. Immediate objective was the important Ung Valley railroad connecting Hungary with Poland. Hungary's larger ambition is eventually to gain control of all Slovakia, which used to be in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Adolf Hitler, having just assumed a 25-year responsibility for Slovak territory, hurried back from Memel. At week's end, it seemed that Hungary would get the railroad, but nothing more...
When Adolf Hitler marched into Austria year ago "His Most Apostolic Majesty" Otto von Habsburg, 26-year-old pretender to the Austro-Hungarian throne, entered objections. Blustering Field Marshal Hermann Goring answered the objections by calling the Archduke "this comic boy." Nazi Administrator Josef Bürckel dubbed him "Otto the Last." The Nazi police issued a warrant for his arrest for high treason should "His Majesty" ever be caught in Reich territory. Otto remained in Belgium, where he has lived with his mother, onetime Empress Zita, for the last nine years. Last week in Paris, after Führer...
Several ski clubs and professional teams will race with the college aggregation. The Austro-Swiss team, composed of some of the best professionals in the East, are favored to win first place...
...years Odon von Horvath lived in the shadow of a huge, sinister, apparently dead but always growing tree-the German State. He was born in 1901 in what was then Serbia, where his father served in the Austro-Hungarian embassy. He was educated in Budapest. During his adolescence the German tree trunk burned itself hollow with...