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...Kurt von Schuschnigg, the last Chancellor of independent Austria, exhumed the bodies of two predecessors, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel and Engelbert Dollfuss, and placed them in elaborate bronze sarcophagi at the Church of Christ the King, in Vienna. Last week the Nazis ordered the bodies reburied in their original graves. Official Nazi reason: "The public objects to seeing these coffins exhibited in a place of worship." Nazis forgot to mention that since the Anschluss the public has not been allowed to enter the crypt...
Meanwhile, Dr. Schuschnigg remained locked up in an attic room under the eaves of Vienna's Hotel Metropole, headquarters of the Gestapo in Vienna. The correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph & Morning Post last fortnight reported it was practically certain that Dr. Schuschnigg would not be tried, more likely that he would soon be released to live, under strict guard, in a Vienna villa where he could be joined by his wife, whom he married by proxy while imprisoned...
Meanwhile an estimated 1,133 streets and squares, notably Rathaus Platz in Vienna, acquired the name of Adolf Hitler. He delivered 96 public speeches, attended eleven opera performances (way below par), vanquished two rivals (Benes and Kurt von Schuschnigg, Austria's last Chancellor), sold 900,000 new copies of Mein Kampf in Germany besides selling it widely in Italy and Insurgent Spain. His only loss was in eyesight: he had to begin wearing spectacles for work. Last week Herr Hitler entertained at a Christmas party 7,000 workmen now building Berlin's new mammoth Chancellery, told them: "The next decade...
...musical von Trapps always sang and played just for the fun of it, never thought of turning professional. When Soprano Lotte Lehmann heard them, she suggested concerts. When Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg heard them over the radio, he invited them to sing in Vienna. Soon the von Trapps were touring the whole map of Europe...
...only visitor is his wife, the former Countess Vera Fugger von Babenhausen, whom he married by proxy while imprisoned (TIME, June 13).* She takes him fresh linen every Friday. Dr. Fuchs explained that of course Gestapo agents have combed Kurt Schuschnigg's accounts, intimate letters and diplomatic correspondence in search of evidence to support the charges against him, and that a peculiarly ingenious device has been invented to break his will: Twice a day Prisoner Schuschnigg is forced to listen to the voices of Adolf Hitler and Propaganda Minister Goebbels, vilifying him at the top of their lungs, from...